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JOHNA.SEAVERNS 


Webster  Family  Library  of  Veterinary  Medicine 
Ciirrimings  School  ot  Veterinary  iVledicine  at 
Tufc  University 
200  VVestboro  Road 
K'crth'Grafton,  MA  01536 


NOWHERE  is  bad  taste  in  dress  so  conspicuous  as 
on  horseback. 

Ladies  riding  habits  and  men's  riding  suits  are  never 
satisfactory  unless  cut  by  tailors  who  are  experienced 
in  that  particular  line. 

We  are  the  acknowledged  leaders  in  Chicago. 

We  invite  your  inspection  of  our  imported  cloths 
especially  suitable  for  riding  clothes. 

Don't  buy  in  a  hurry  and  repent  at  leisure. 

Anderson  &  Christiano 

Century  Building 
Southwest  Corner  State  and  Adams 

Phone  Wabash  6849 


CHICAGO 

EQUESTRIAN 
ASSOCIATION 


Organized 

1908 

Book    Issued 

1921 


1908     Officers  and  Directors     1920 


1908-1910 
George  P  Nichols         ........        President 

Aslrid  Scheel  Rosing Vice-President 

Charles  Spencer  Williamson        ....       Secretary-Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 
William  Wrigley,  Jr.  J.  H.  Patrick 

Fred  W.  Upliam  James   Pease 

1910-1914 

Edward   G.  Pratt President 

Astrid  Scheel  Rosing Vice-President 

Alfar  M.  Eberhardt       ......       Secretary-Treasurer 

W.  W.  Waite Assistant  Secretary 

DIRECTORS 
John  J.  Herrick  Martin  H.  Foss 

A.  E.  Freer  G.  Russell   Leonard 

John  Williamson  E.  E.  Amory 

1915 

George  Packard President 

Walter   Clyde   Jones Vice-President 

Eugene   E.   Amory Treasurer 

George  Russell   Leonard Secretary 

DIRECTORS 
Julius   Regenstein  Martin  H.  Foss 

John  J.  Herrick  E.  R.  Shaw 

W.   C.   Moulton  Clayton  B.  Sliourds 

1916 

Walter  Clyde  Jones President 

Henry  F.  Hawkins Vice-President 

Eugene  E.  Amory         ........       Treasurer 

George  Russell   Leonard  .......    Secretary 


DIRECTORS 
Julius  Regenstein  E.  R.  Shaw 

John  J.  Herrick  Arthur   B.  Crosby 

Capt.  F.  R.  Schwengel  C.  Groverman  Ellis 

1917 

John  Williamson President 

E.  R.  Shaw Vice-President 

W.  Brock  Fuller  Treasurer 

C.  Groverman  Ellis Secretary 

DIRECTORS 
George  Packard  Eugene  E.  Amory 

John  S.  Hummer  Philip  W.  Raber 

Avery  Coonley  Arthur  M.  Cox 

1918-1919 

John  R.  Thompson President 

William  J.  Sutherland     ......         Vice-President 

C.  Groverman  Ellis Secretary-Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 
Edw.  W.  Miller  G.  Russell  Leonard 

John  Williamson  Philip  W.  Raber 

John  S.  Hummer  J.  B.  Latimer 

1920 

William  J.  Sutherland President 

John  Hertz Vice-President 

C.  Groverman  Ellis Secretary-Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

J.  K.   Dering  Carleton  L.  Elmes 

Chas.  A.  Dunbar  John  S.  Hummer 

Albert  W.  Harris  Otto  Lehmann 

Walter  Clyde  Jones  Dr.  Geo.  H.  Musselman 

G.  Russell   Leonard  Francis  S.  Peabody 

Benjamin  F.  Siein  Dudley  Rutter 

Thomas  E.  Wilson  John  Williamson 


Officers,  Directors  and  Committees 

for  1921 


WILLIAM  J.  SUTHERLAND,  President 


JOHN   HERTZ,   Vice-President 


C.  GROVERMAN  ELLIS,  Secretary-Treasurer 


DIRECTORS 


J.  K.  Dering 

Chas.  A.  Dunbar 
Albert  W.  Harris 

Walter  Clyde  Jones 
G.  Russell  Leonard 


Benjamin  F.  Stein 
Thomas   E.   Wilson 

H.   Walton   Heegstra 
E.  J.  Lehmann 
Heman  Gifford 


Carleton   L.  Elmes 
John  S,  Hummer 
Otto   Lehmann 

Dr.  Geo.  H.  Musselman 
Francis  S.  Peabody 


Dudley  Rutter 

John  Williamson 
Wni.  E.  Dee 

Dr.  W.  R.  Neff 


FINANCE  COMMITTEE 
E.  ].  Lehmann,  Chairman 
Thos.  E.  Wilson  Wm.    E.    Dee 

John   S.   Hummer  Francis  S.  Peabody 

A.  W.  Harris  Guy  G.  Woodin 


NORTH  SIDE  RIDES  COMMITTEE 

Summer  and  Winter 

Heman  Gifford,  Chairman 


"  COMMITTEES 

MEMBERSHIP  COMMITTEE 
H.  Walton  Heegstra,  Chairman 
Benj.  F.  Stein  Frank  Flynn 

Dudley   Rutter  G.  Russell  Leonard 

I.  Stiefel  Dr.  W.  R.  Neff 

O.  W.  Lehmann  E.  S.  Van  Sant 

ORGANIZATION    AND    BUILDING 

COMMITTEE 

Thos.  E.  ff  ilson.  Chairman 


ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE 
Benj.  F.  Stein,  Chairman 
Chas.  A.  Dunbar  G.  Russell  Leonard 

Heman  Gifford  Dr.  Geo.  H.  Musselman 


SOUTH  SIDE  RIDES  COMMITTEE 

Summer  and  Winter 

G.  Russell  Leonard,  Chairman 


Dr.  W.  R.  Neff 
E.  S.  Van  Sant 
Dudley   Rutter 


J.  Regenstein 

I.  Stiefel 

A.  B.  Crosby 


J.  K.  Dering 
Francis  S.   Peabody 
Albert  W.  Harris 
John  R.  Thompson 
E.  J.  Lehmann 
Benj.  F.  Stein 
Carleton  L.  Elmes 


Benj.  F.  Stein 
Chas.  A.  Dunbar 


E.  E.  Amory 
Abel  Davis 


O.  W.  Lehmann 
Thos.   E.  Wilson 
H.  Walton  Heegstra 
Guy  G.  Woodin 


HORSE  SHOW  COMMITTEE 
J.  K.  Dering,  Chairman 

E.  J.  Lehmann 
Harry  Newman 
Carleton  L.  Elmes 
Chas.  A.  Dunbar 
WiUiam  E.  Dee 


E.  E.  Amory 
O.  W.  Lehmann 
Morris   Rosenwald 
H.  Walton  Heegstra 
J.  S.  Hummer 
Guy  G.  Woodin 


RECEPTION  COMMITTEE 
Mrs.  Chas.  A.  Dunbar,  Chairman 

Mrs.  Ed.  L.  Cleveland  Mrs.  Grace  Underwood 

Miss  Clara  R.  Condon  Mrs.  A.   B,   Crosby 

Mrs.  Louise   M.   Robinson  Miss  Edna   Baker 

Miss  Florence  M.  Spofford  Mrs.  H.  Walton  Heegstra 
Mrs.  M.  F.   Goldsmith 


The  President,  Vice-President  and  Secretary   are  members,  ex-oflicio,  of  all   committees. 


The  Chicago  Equestrian  Association 

Its  History  and  Aims 

FEW  organizations  can  point  to  so  interesting  a  rec- 
ord of  work  accomplished  for  the  public  good  as 
may  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association.  When 
the  horseback  rider  of  today  is  enjoying  the  many  miles 
of  wonderful  bridle  path  in  and  aroimd  Chicago  little 
does  he  realize  how  great  a  debt  he  owes  to  this  pioneer 
equestrian  association  for  its  share  in  making  riding  an 
unadulterated  pleasure  of  health  and   recreation. 

It  was  during  the  fall  of  1908  that  The  Chicago  Eques- 
trian Association  came  into  existence  when  a  little  group 
of  enthusiastic  horsemen  met  one  autumn  day  at  the  Red 
Star  Inn  and  elected  the  first  officers  of  the  organization. 
This  little  group  consisted  of  some  of  the  city's  leading 
horse-lovers,  as  will  be  apparent  from  a  glance  at  the 
officers  elected  at  that  historic  meeting.  These  were: 
President,  George  P.  Nichols;  Vice-President,  Miss  Astrid 
S.  Rosing;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Dr.  Charles  Spencer 
Williamson;  Directors,  Fred  W.  Upham,  Frank  S.  Pea- 
body,  William  Wrigley,  Jr.,  John  S.  Hummer,  James 
Pease  and  John  A.  Duncan. 

The  growth  of  the  association  has  exceeded  even  the 
most  sanguine  expectations  of  the  organizers,  for  today 
the  membership  numbers  nearly  five  hundred  enthusiastic 
horseback  riders  of  both  sexes.  Membership  in  the  asso- 
ciation implies  more  than  a  mere  interest  in  "man's  best 
friend";  nearly  all  of  the  members  ride  and  ride  fre- 
quently. They  have  kept  the  sport  alive  as  has  no  other 
similar  organization  of  which  the  city  can  boast. 


John  Hertz, 
Vice-President 


C  Groverman  Ellis,  Secretary-Treasurer 


Those  who  know  the  Association  know  that  it  is  a  miU- 
tant  organization.  It  has  an  objective — goes  after  it — 
gets  there.  Particularly  has  this  been  true  during  the 
past  two  years.  For  1919  and  1920  have  been  active  years 
full  of  work  acconiphshed  by  the  organization. 

In  good  fellowship  the  Association  has  been  blessed 
with  unusual  good  fortune.  The  activities  of  the  entire 
roster  of  members  have  been  well  attended  and  productive 
of  much  co-operation  and  good  will.  Nmnerous  rides  and 
dinner  dances  have  been  given  at  Dexter  Park  Pavilion 
and  at  the  Saddle  and  Sirloin  Club.  At  the  annual  din- 
ner and  dance  held  at  the  Sherman  House  on  February 
5th  more  than  300  members  were  in  attendance. 

The  speeches  on  that  occasion  were  unusually  interest- 
ing to  all  lovers  of  the  horse.  Some  of  the  speakers,  and 
the  subjects  they  discussed  were:  General  Milton  J.  Fore- 
man, who  spoke  on  "The  Horse  in  War,"  Mr.  Albert  W 
Harris,  whose  subject  was  "The  300  Mile  Endurance  Test,' 
Mr.  James  W.  Scott,  President  of  Northwestern  University 
who  made  an  exceedingly  enjoyable  and  humorous  ad 
dress,  and  Mr.  Thomas  E.  Wilson,  one  of  our  most  prom 
inent  members  and  directors,  who  spoke  both  interest 
ingly  and  well.  Colonel  Chaxuicey  B.  Baker,  represent 
ing  Major  General  Leonard  A.  Wood,  talked  on  "The 
Army  Horse."  One  bit  of  excellent  advice  he  gave  is 
well  worth  recalling  when  we  survey  the  work  the  Asso- 
ciation has  accomplished.  He  said:  "Let  the  Chicago 
Equestrian  Association  find  ovit  exactly  what  it  wants  to 
do  and  then  do  it." 

After  this  historic  meeting  and  the  installation  of  of- 
ficers the  members  and  their  guests  were  entertained  by 
their  most  recent  new  member,  Sidney  Smith,  who  drew  a 
number  of  pictures  of  the  members  on  horseback.  Miss 
Grace  Billings,  daughter  of  one  of  our  members,  very 
delightfully    entertained    us    with    a    song. 


The  evening  terminated  with  a  thoroughly  enjoyable 
dance  at  which  everyone  had  a  good  time. 

Another  important  event  was  the  musical  costume  ride 
given  by  the  Association  at  Dexter  Park  Pavilion  on  the 
evening  of  November  16th.  While  this  was  a  distinct  in- 
novation in  the  way  of  entertaining,  a  wonderfully  en- 
joyable evening  was  spent  by  the  more  than  hundred 
riders  who  participated.  So  unique  was  this  affair  that 
the  International  Fihn  Service  and  Underwood  and  Un- 
derwood, the  International  Photographers,  deemed  it  of 
sufficient  importance  to  have  photographs  and  moving 
pictures  taken  of  the  event.  The  latter  were  shown 
throughout  the  country. 

The  "ride"  on  this  occasion  began  early  in  the  evening 
with  a  light  lunch  served  upon  tables  erected  upon  stilts 
so  that  the  riders  could  partake  of  the  viands  without 
dismounting.  Photographs  of  this  ride  and  feature  are 
made  a  part  of  this  Year  Book.  After  the  ride  a  splendid 
dinner  was  enjoyed  in  the  ball  room  of  the  Stock  Yards' 
Inn,  where  more  than  200  partook  of  the  repast  set  before 
them. 

This  was   a   dinner   dance  which   enabled   members   to 
enjoy   themselves  thoroughly   both   during  and   after  the  ••■^^ 
meal.     It  is  referred  to  in  detail  here  as  being  typical  of 
the  good  times  enjoyed  by  the  Association  when  its  mem- 
bers get  together. 

Let  us  consider  now  the  work  accomplished  by  the 
Association  and  its  aims  for  the  future.  Largely  through  jkj 
the  efforts  of  its  officers  bridle  paths  have  been  extended  ^W 
and  added  to  the  South  and  North  Park  systems.  Thus 
we  find  that  the  total  mileage  of  bridle  paths  in  Lincoln 
Park  is  about  11.  Other  paths  in  this  park  are  under 
construction,  and  still  more  have  been  recommended  by 
the  Lincoln  Park  board. 


J.  K.  Dering 
Director 

Chairman, 
Horse  Show 
Committee 


Francis  S.  Peabody, 
Director 


On  the  South  Side  the  same  good  work  has  been  going 
on,  due  to  the  efforts  of  the  Association.  The  total  mileage 
of  bridle  paths  in  Washington  Park  now  numbers  2%, 
while  Jackson  Park  has  4  miles.  It  can  be  safely  said 
that  no  city  in  this  country  or  Europe  has  more  and 
better  bridle  paths  than  those  of  Chicago. 

If  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association  is  given  the  sup- 
port and  the  encouragement  it  has  enjoyed  in  the  past 
Chicago  will  soon  head  the  list  of  cities  in  these  respects: 
It  wiU  have  the  finest  and  most  representative  Equestrian 
Club  in  the  United  States,  more  miles  of  bridle  paths  in 
its  park  system  than  any  other  city,  and  a  comprehensive 
system  of  paths  connecting  the  South,  North  and  West  Park 
Systems  with  the  Forest  Preserve,  and  a  bridle  path  in 
the  new  additions  to  the  South  Park  System.  Also,  with 
the  completion  of  the  Lake  Front  Park  Chicago  will  have 
a  wonderful  bridle  path  connecting  Grant  Park  with 
Jackson  Park  and  a  bridle  path  linking  the  North  Park 
System  with  Grant  Park. 

At  present  the  activities  of  the  Association  are  two-fold. 
They  are  directed  toward  increasing  the  membership  of 
the  organization  until  it  numbers  every  rider  and  horse 
lover  in  Chicago,  and  to  secure  additional  bridle  paths 
throughout  Chicago's  park  system  and  the  surrounding 
County  Forest  Preserve.  To  accomplish  the  former  ob- 
jective this  Year  Book  has  a  genuine  mission,  for  its  aim 
is  to  interest  every  horseman  and  horsewoman  in  the 
activities  of  the  association  and  thus  secure  additional 
members.  Every  member  will  receive  a  copy  of  this  book, 
and  with  the  circulation  thus  assured  many  new  members 
will  become  interested  in  our  work. 


A  Club  House  and  Arena  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the 
association  is  another  project  under  consideration.  It  is 
planned  to  make  this  the  most  complete  and  elaborate 
in  the  country,  surpassing  anything  of  a  similar  nature 
ever  undertaken.  Committees  have  been  appointed  to 
further  this  project,  and  it  is  the  hope  of  the  Association 
that  next  year  will  see  this  far  enough  along  to  make  its 
completion  a  reality.  Our  members  feel  that  vfith  other 
cities  already  owning  magnificent  riding  club  houses  and 
arenas  there  is  no  real  reason  why  Chicago  should  lag 
behind  in  this  respect. 

It  has  been  the  good  fortune  of  the  Association  to  secure 
recognition  at  the  South  Shore  Country  Club  Horse  Show, 
The  Dairy  Show  and  the  International  Live  Stock  Exhibi- 
tion during  the  past  season.  Members  of  the  Association 
figured  prominently  in  these  events  by  winning  prizes, 
special  classes  being  created  for  members  of  our  organi- 
zation. 

All  things  considered,  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association  has  been  intensely 
gratifying.  With  the  co-operation  of  all  of  its  members 
it  should  forge  ahead  even  faster  during  the  coming  years, 
until  it  shall  have  won  for  itself  the  proud  name  of  being 
the  country's  most  representative  organization  devoted 
to  the  interests  of  His  Majesty,  The  Horse. 


Just  a 

Moment 

Please — 

Think 

of  a   horseback  riding 

friend 

or 

two 

who 

should  be  with  us. 

Three 

thousand 

members 

car 

do   more 

and 

get 

more  than  can  three  hundred. 

Otto  Lehmann 
Director 


Thos.    E.    Wilson, 
Director 

Chairman, 
Organization  and 
Building  Committee 


The  Joys  and  Benefits  of 
Horseback  Riding 

By  Herbert  J.  Krum 
Editor:  The  Show  Horse  Chronicle,  Lexington,  Ky. 

HORSEBACK  exercise  is  enjoying  an  unprecedented 
popularity  at  the  present  time  in  all  parts  of  this 
countiy.  It  is  not  an  over-statement  to  say  that 
never  before  have  so  many  people  been  drawn  to  this  par- 
ticular form  of  outdoor  sport  as  is  true  just  now.  All  of 
our  great  cities  bear  testimony  to  this  fact,  and  in  count- 
less thousands  of  relatively  small  cities  and  towns  there 
are  numerous  addicts  to  equestrianism  in  striking  com- 
parison with  what  was  true  only  a  few  years  ago.  This 
statement  seems  to  carry  an  inherent  and  necessary  con- 
tradiction in  turn,  and  to  reconcile  these  seeming  incon- 
sistencies may  afford  a  very  engaging  form  of  mental 
specidation. 

Perhaps  at  no  previous  period  in  the  history  of  this 
country  have  really  good  saddle  horses  been  as  scarce,  as 
hard  to  find  and  acquire,  or  as  costly  to  purchase  when 
found,  as  is  true  now.  It  is  well  realized  by  all  who  are 
conversant  with  the  suljject  that  saddle  horse  breeding 
operations  have  reached  within  the  past  two  or  three  years 
the  lowest  ebb  in  their  history. 

In  Kentucky,  Missouri,  Tennessee  and  the  other  South- 
ern states,  from  whence  in  the  past  time  have  come  the 
greatest  numbers  of  the  saddle  horses  distributed  in  all 
parts  of  the  land,  production  of  fine  saddle  horses  has 
reached  an  almost  negligible  stage.  It  formerly  was  true 
that  any  person  desiring  to  purchase  a  fine  saddle  horse 
could  go,  or  could  send,  to  any  one  of  hundreds  of  breeders 


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or  dealers  in  Kentucky  and  exercise  a  range  of  choice 
relative  to  the  purchase  of  a  saddle  horse  that  would 
include  hundreds  of  animals,  exactly  counterable  to  such 
person's  tastes,  preferences,  uses  or  necessities.  Those 
having  them  to  sell  would  constitute  a  most  remarkable 
competition  for  such  buyer's  patronage,  and  if  one  cared 
to  do  so,  he  could  within  certain  limits,  almost  dictate 
the  price  at  which  he  could  secure  a  saddle  horse  that 
was  exactly  what  he  wanted. 

But  this  is  no  longer  true.  On  the  contrary,  the  for- 
tunate possessor  of  a  saddle  horse  in  these  days  is  apt  to 
regard  a  would-be  purchaser,  not  only  with  tolerant  indif- 
ference, but  probably  also  with  distant  disdain.  And  when 
such  purchaser  fortunately  locates  a  horse  that  is  within 
striking  resemblance  of  anything  that  would  remotely 
approximate  his  wishes,  he  is  apt  to  find  that  the  owner 
of  such  animal,  when  besought  with  a  proper  degree  of 
deference,  to  designate  a  price  which  he  will  consent  to 
accept  for  it,  that  the  owner  will  nonchalantly  now-a-days 
talk  easily  in  terms  of  thousands,  as  a  few  years  ago  he 
would  have  been  delighted  to  have  talked  in  hundreds. 

This  is,  of  course,  the  inexorable  result  of  the  immut- 
able law  of  supply  and  demand.  And  it  probably  in  part 
accounts  for  the  fact  that  saddle  horse  riding  is  now  enjoy- 
ing the  degree  of  prestige  and  popularity  by  which  it 
unquestionably  is  surrounded.  When  things  become  diffi- 
cult to  secure,  everybody  wants  them.  Since  saddle  horses 
have  joined  the  small  coterie  of  exclusive  luxuries,  costly 
and  difficult  to  attain,  everybody  rides.  The  ownership 
and  use  of  a  saddle  horse  now  carries  with  it  a  sort  of  dis- 
tinction, and  marks  one  as  being  the  fortunate  possessor  of 
a  something  impossible  of  acquisition  by  his  or  her  less 
fortunate  fellow  mortals.  Hence,  saddle  horse  riding  is 
the  thing.  And  so  just  as  the  law  of  supply  and  demand 
continues  its  uninterrupted  sway,  so  the  law  of  compen- 


Albert   W.  Harris, 
Director 


-nnm 


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//.  Walton  Heegstra, 
Director 

Chairman,  Year  Book 
and  Membership 
Committee 


sation  finds  here  another  illustration  of  its  continued  reign. 
The  saddle  horse  gets  even  with  the  automobile. 

A  decade  ago,  the  proud  owner  of  a  car  regarded  the 
fellow  on  a  saddle  horse  with  an  air  of  disdainful  supe- 
riority. Now  the  tables  are  turned.  And  from  his  lofty 
eminence  the  rider  of  a  saddle  horse  regards  the  occupant 
of  even  the  most  opulent  motor  with  a  sublime  smile  of 
impeccable  hauteur.  But  the  popularity  of  the  saddle 
horse  depends  upon  a  much  more  solid,  and  a  great  deal 
broader  foundation,  than  the  mere  whim  of  fashion,  or 
the  constantly  shifting  currents  of  social  prestige.  The 
saddle  horse  of  today  must  be  regarded  as  both  a  utility 
and  a  minister  to  one's  pleasure. 

While  it  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  nature  of  the  utili- 
tarian purposes,  to  which  saddle  horses  are  devoted,  have 
undergone  a  radical  change  during  the  last  decade,  the 
change  has  by  no  means  obviated  the  fact. 

It  is  true  that  people  no  longer  use  saddle  horses  for 
the  purposes  of  making  journeys,  in  the  sense  in  which  our 
forefathers  used  them,  in  the  pioneer  days,  for  coming 
from  Virginia  into  the  western  vastnesses  of  the  then  miex- 
plored  Blue  Grass  region  of  Kentucky.  But  it  is  not  less 
true  that  we  do  use  saddle  horses  for  other  purposes  of 
an  entirely  different  but  equally  important  nature.  To 
illustrate:  modern  industrial  and  social  life  is  conducted 
at  a  very  high  pressure,  and  with  a  consequent  result  of 
a  constantly  increasing  depletion  of  vital  and  nervous 
energy.  The  modern  business  man,  and  the  modem  soci- 
ety woman,  both  live  under  an  extreme  tension,  and  every- 
thing proceeds  at  an  extraordinarily  rapid  pace.  The  auto- 
mobile itself  has  been  a  minister,  and  an  instrument, 
contributing  to  this  very  result.  The  machine  has  brought 
the  country  to  the  city  limits,  and  one  of  its  most  potent 
results  has  been  to  add  measurably  to  the  hours  of  our 
never-ceasing  and  restless  activities. 


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As  a  consequence,  some  form  of  physical  exercise  has 
become  an  essential  concomitant  to  our  physical  well-being 
and  it  is  at  just  this  point  that  the  saddle  horse  enters 
with  many  of  the  requisites  for  our  most  respectful  con- 
sideration. 

It  is  confidently  asserted  that  there  is  no  other  form 
of  physical  exercise  that  possesses  so  many,  and  such 
varied,  advantages  as  does  horseback  riding.  It  is  an 
homely  but  an  ever-pertinent  quotation  that  the  outside 
of  a  horse  is  the  best  thing  for  the  inside  of  a  man,  and 
unlike  many  antiquated  proverbs,  this  one  has  the  indubit- 
able advantage  of  being  literally  true. 

Horseback  riding  takes  us  into  the  open  air.  It  is  a 
gentle  and  yet  a  rigorous  form  of  physical  exertion.  It 
stimulates  and  accelerates,  but  without  too  great  a  degree 
of  violence,  the  circulation  of  the  blood  and  arouses  and 
moves  to  a  rigorous  and  unwonted  activity  the  sluggish- 
ness of  a  torpid  liver.  It  causes  unconsciously  and  pleas- 
antly a  stimulation  of  the  heart  beat,  and  the  expansion  of 
the  lungs.  It  produces  throughout  the  entire  body  a 
healthful  glow  of  pleasurable  exhilaration  and  a  definite 
sense  of  bodily  well-being.  It  makes  one  tired,  but  health- 
ily tired.  It  is  exhausting,  but  neither  enervating  nor 
depressing,  and  ultimately  it  super-induces  an  invigorat- 
ing and  restorative  repose  and  slumber.  It  brings  on  the 
ability  to  enjoy  that  "sleep  that  knits  up  the  raveled 
sleeve  of  care."  It  fits  the  man  for  the  day's  occupation, 
and  brings  to  the  woman  the  energy  for  the  successful 
meeting  of  the  cares  and  problems  of  an  arduous  social 
life.  That  horseback  riding  is  distinctly  beneficial  in  a 
physical  sense  is  the  universal  experience  of  all  who  have 
ever  enjoyed  it,  and  it  has  the  testimony  of  the  medical 
profession,  and  of  all  physical  culture  scientists. 

These  are  phases  of  utilitarianism  quite  as  definite  and 
important  as  were  those  utility  aspects  of  the  horse  in  his 
former  role  as  a  means  of  conveyance. 


Dudley  Rutter, 
Director 


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G.  Russell  Leonard, 

Director 
Chairman,  South  Side 
Ridrs  Committee 


Many  other  forms  of  physical  exercise  have  general 
recognition  as  being  beneficial,  but  horseback  riding  is 
much  more  than  merely  beneficial.  It  is,  for  example, 
convenient.  There  are  many  forms  of  physical  exercise 
available  to  any  one;  golf,  tennis,  the  gymnasium,  moun- 
tain climbing,  hunting,  swimming,  and  so  on,  in  an  end- 
less and  various  enumeration.  But  compared  with  horse- 
back riding,  any  of  these  present  certain  disadvantages 
and  inconveniences. 

Golf  numbers  hundreds  of  thousands  of  addicts,  but  to 
play  golf  means  a  protracted  period  of  leisure;  a  journey 
to  the  links;  the  uncertainties  of  caddies,  and  many  other 
things  that  makes  playing  golf  require  a  definite  and  pre- 
arranged program.  And  so  with  practically  all  of  the  other 
forms  of  outdoor  physical  recreation. 

Hunting  means  a  journey;  a  lodge  in  some  vast  wilder- 
ness, and  an  absence  from  one's  usual  avocation.  Every- 
one knows  that  the  gymnasium  quickly  becomes  monoton- 
ous, and  though  its  benefits  are  unquestionable,  it  palls  in 
its  deadly  routine. 

Horseback  exercise,  in  contra-distinction  to  all  of  the 
other  things  we  have  mentioned,  need  not  interfere  with 
one's  regular  business  or  social  duties.  It  requires  no  spe- 
cial pre-arrangement;  nor  does  it  involve  the  assistance  of 
any  accessory.  It  is  an  ideal  way  to  begin  the  day's  work, 
and  a  brisk  hour  in  the  saddle  in  the  morning  is  an  ideal 
preface  to  even  the  most  arduous  daily  task.  It  clears  the 
cobwebs  from  the  brain,  and  it  puts  a  joy  and  vim  into 
living  that  nothing  else  can  take  the  place  of,  and  that 
nothing  else  supplies. 

One  of  the  greatest  advantages  of  horseback  riding  is 
the  fact  that  the  physical  benefits  are  not  ordinarily  the 
prime  purpose  and  motive  for  engaging  in  it.  These  phys- 
ical benefits  are  really  incidental;  one  might  even  say 
almost  unconscious.     They  are  a  sort  of  bi-product.    Usu- 


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ally  one  rides  because  one  likes  to  do  so.  It  is  just  pure, 
unadulterated,  boyish  fun.  A  man  or  a  woman  enjoys 
a  horseback  ride  in  exactly  the  same  spirit  as  a  kid  enjoys 
a  game  of  marbles.  We  do  it  for  the  fun  of  the  thing, 
and  subconsciously  realize  that  in  having  our  fun,  we  are 
also  gaining  distinct  bodily  benefits.  And  by  one  of  the 
curious  quirks  of  our  physiological  endowment  we  always 
benefit  most  from  those  benefits  which  are  indirect,  and 
unobtrusive,  in  their  operation.  Thus  the  horseback  ride 
is  first  of  all  the  thing  we  enjoy,  and  co-incidently  the 
thing  from  which  we  benefit.  This  is  one  of  its  greatest 
virtues. 

So  then  we  have  first  of  all,  in  favor  of  this  form  of 
beneficial  enjoyment,  its  convenience.  In  the  next  place, 
it  possesses  the  advantages  of  an  endless  variety  and  horse- 
back riding  is  literally  like  Egypt's  famous  queen,  of 
whom  it  was  said,  "age  cannot  wither,  nor  customs  stale 
her  infinite  variety."  We  can  ride  in  a  different  direction, 
into  different  scenes,  into  all  sorts  of  conditions  and  local- 
ities, and  enjoy  all  the  infinite  aspects  of  nature  in  all  of 
her  varying  moods.  All  seasons  of  the  year  may  be  alike. 
One  may  make  choice  of  either  day  or  night,  and  to  the 
equestrian,  neither  snow  nor  rain  need  be  a  necessary 
deterrent  from  the  indulgence  in  one's  favorite  pastime. 
We  have  seen  scores  of  Chicago  equestrians  cantering 
through  the  park  when  the  ground  was  covered  with  a 
foot  of  snow;  just  as  we  have  seen  them  returning  when 
they  came  to  the  end  of  a  perfect  day,  in  the  balmy  air  of 
a  summer  evening's  twilight.  Thus  it  is  seen  that  to  con- 
venience is  added  to  the  pleasure  of  horseback  riding, 
that  of  variety. 

Again,  and  this  is  one  of  its  most  important  aspects, 
horseback  riding  is  a  social  form  of  sport.  It  has  the 
incalculable  attractions  of  companionship,  and  also  invari- 
ably of  congenial  companionship.  Usually  one's  horse 
is  one's  companion.     A  dearly  loved  and  justly  appreci- 


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ated  churn,  and  having  all  of  the  merits  of  a  distinct  aird 
engaging  personality. 

The  moods  and  humors  of  a  horse  are  as  various,  as 
versatile,  and  as  uncertain  as  are  those  of  a  woman.  They 
are  just  as  easily  predicated,  and  this,  of  course,  gives  to 
one's  equine  comrade,  all  of  the  pleasure  of  the  indefinite, 
and  unknowable.  Nor  are  we  confined  to  the  vagaries  of 
but  one  horse.  There  are  available  for  us  all  of  these  mul- 
tiplied by  just  as  many  different  horses  as  our  inclinations 
may  insight,  and  our  check  books  aflford. 

Golf  links  are  all  very  much  alike.  Every  horse  is  just 
as  different  from  every  other  horse,  as  one  star  differs 
from  another.  And  usually  the  bonds  between  the  horse 
and  the  rider  is  the  closest,  excepting  only  that  between 
sweethearts,  by  which  mortals  are  bound-  If  the  poet  in 
describing  the  affection  of  the  Arab  for  his  horse  exagger- 
ated, when  he  said,  "more  than  maiden,  more  than  wife, 
more  than  gold,  and  next  to  life,  Russian  the  robber  loved 
his  horse,"  he  exaggerated  only  a  little. 

And  here  we  come  upon  one  of  the  links  in  the  chain 
by  which  men  and  women  are  so  securely  bound  to  their 
equine  friend.  For  the  horse  is  to  its  owner  an  object 
of  real  aflfection.  Most  people  who  own  saddle  horses 
love  them,  and  their  horses  have  a  real  personality  that 
makes  them  objects  of  a  genuine  affection.  Our  horse  is 
an  object  upon  which  we  can  pour  out  all  of  the  pent-up 
emotions  that  arise  in  the  human  breast,  and  be  sure  of 
a  just,  even  though  dumb,  appreciation  and  reciprocation. 
If  our  horses  are  frequently  the  objects  of  an  almost  idola- 
trous worship,  we  need  never  know  that  they  are  squan- 
dered upon  an  unrequited  and  ungrateful  object.  For  we 
do  know  that,  just  as  many  people  do  really  love  their 
horses,  so  their  horses  do  also  love  them. 

Even  this  is  not  the  whole  of  the  story.  For  horseback 
exercising  is  a  social  enjoyment  that  extends  beyond  the 
comradeship  cf  the  rider  and  his  mount.    It  is  a  pleasure 


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that  one  can  share  with  one's  friend;  with  all  the  mem- 
bers of  one's  family,  and  practically  without  limitation, 
in  a  truly  community  sense.  What  could  be  more  enjoy- 
able than  sharing  the  advantages  of  physical  benefit  with 
one's  sweetheart,  or  with  one's  wife  and  children,  or  with 
one's  business  associate,  or  even  casual  acquaintances, 
imbued  with  congenial  and  similar  tastes.  For,  after  all, 
man  is  a  social  animal  and  anything  which  one  enjoys 
with  one's  fellows,  by  virtue  of  that  very  fact,  takes  on 
an  added  enjoyment. 

These  are  but  a  few  of  the  conspiring  causes  for  the 
ever-growing  popularity  of  the  horse,  as  an  instrument  of 
both  benefit  and  pleasure,  in  all  parts  of  the  country  at 
the  present  time,  and  strange  to  say,  the  automobile  at 
first  feared  as  the  horse's  deadly  rival,  has  become  instead 
of  proving  such,  one  of  the  very  means  by  which  the  use  of 
the  horse  has  been  stimulated. 

While  it  is  true  that  the  machines  have  crowded  the 
horse  off  the  city  streets  and  boulevards,  and  from  the 
country  road,  it  has,  at  the  same  time,  brought  the  park, 
the  bridle  path,  the  country  estate,  and  the  riding  school 
right  to  our  door.  And,  added  to  all  of  these  advantages, 
which  pertain  to  the  horse  in  merely  a  personal  and  pri- 
vate pleasure  capacity,  there  is  added  also  the  vast  realm 
of  the  tanbark  and  the  show  ring,  wherein  man's  nature  Elmes, 
as  an  imitative  and  competitive  being  finds  luilimited  Director 
scope  for  unlimited  expression. 

The  show  ring  affords  opportunity  for  the  expression 
of  every  form  of  ambition  and  of  all  of  the  vicissitudes  of 
uncertainty.  It  is  the  most  democratic  forum  known  to 
the  world  and  one  of  the  places  where  more  than  any  other 
one  must  stand  upon  one's  own  feet  and  be  rated  in  exact 
proportion  to  one's  own  demonstrable  ability.  Prince  and 
pauper  meet  here  upon  an  absolutely  common  plane  and 
it  is  one  of  the  few  places  still  remaining  unoccupied  in 


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Walter  Clyde  Jones, 
Director 


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this  world  where  the  possession  of  mere  weakh  does  not 
necessarily  assure  its  possessor  of  the  occupancy  of  the 
heights. 

The  owning  of  the  best  horse  is  not  always,  nor  neces- 
sarily, a  question  of  merely  having  money  enough.  Some 
poor  devil  that  we  might  be  able  to  buy,  or  sell,  may  own 
a  horse  immeasurably  better  than  all  others  are,  and  have 
for  that  horse  a  feehng  that  would  compel  him  to  decline 
to  part  with  him,  for  all  the  wealth  that  could  be  show- 
ered upon  him  and  for  which  no  simi  of  money  would  be 
any  temptation  as  an  exchange. 

From  a  day  far  beyond  the  dawn  of  time,  the  horse 
has  been  man's  inseparable  companion;  has  accompanied 
him  through  all  the  stages  of  his  progress  down  the  cen- 
turies and  the  dawn  of  the  twentieth  century  shows  no 
indication  that  the  long  term  of  his  dominion  approaches, 
nor  that  his  sovereign  reign  is  about  to  be  abdicated, 
before  the  inroads  of  any  self-propelled  vehicle,  nor  that 
the  touching  caress  of  his  soft  muzzle  is  to  disappear  in 
an  atmosphere  tainted  in  the  fiunes  of  dividolized  gasoline. 
Horses  have  been  and  will  continue  to  be  man's  insepar- 
able companion,  just  as  long  as  the  human  heart  responds 
to  sympathy  and  the  lnunan  eye  is  subject  to  the  appeal 
of  beautv. 


Doctor  Grayson  Tells  How  to  Keep  Well 


"Horseback  Riding  the  Best  of  All  Exercise" 
for  Business  and  Professional  Men,  He  Says 

F  the  present  universal  use  of  automobiles  and  elevators 
is  continued  we  may  expect  our  great  grandchildren 
to  be  born  without  legs,"  is  the  rather  startling  declara- 
lion  recently  made  by  Dr.  Gary  T.  Grayson,  in  writing 
about  the  importance  of  exercise  and  the  way  in  which 
modern  mechanical  conveniences  are  leading  so  many  per- 


I 


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sons  to  live  without  it.  Though  not  meant  to  be  taken 
literally,  the  statement  was  intended  to  emphasize  the  fact 
that  many  people  are  making  too  much  use  of  such  labor 
saving  machines  and  too  little  use  of  their  own  legs  and 
arms;  in  short,  that  they  are  living  a  hfe  of  too  much 
ease,  so  far  as  physical  exertion  is  concerned. 

The  man  who  has  been  personal  physician  to  three 
Presidents  of  the  United  States  believes  in  the  old  saying 
that  "the  outside  of  a  horse  is  the  best  thing  in  the  world 
for  the  inside  of  a  man." 

"Horseback  riding  is  peculiarly  and  par  excellence  the 
exercise  not  only  for  the  business  man,  the  office  worker, 
the  professional  and  all  persons  living  a  sedentary  life,  but 
as  well  for  the  working  man,  the  laborer  in  shop  and  field 
and  for  those  engaged  in  active  outdoor  pursuits.  In  order 
to  secure  the  greatest  benefits  from  this — as  with  all  other 
exercises — it  should  be  practiced  regularly  for  a  period  of 
thirty  minutes  to  an  hour,  every  day  if  possible,  but,  if 
not,  then  at  the  most  frequent  intervals. 

"Riding  horseback  is  more  than  mere  exercise.  It  gives 
a  perfect  and  thorough  massage  to  the  entire  system,  not 
only  to  the  muscles,  but  to  all  the  vital  organs,  the  heart, 
liver,  lungs,  kidneys,  stomach,  intestines,  the  tissues, 
nerves,  brain,  blood  vessels,  to  every  ligament  and 
joint  in  the  physical  structure.  It  brings  into  health- 
ful play  every  muscle  in  the  human  body,  even  to  the  mus- 
cles of  the  legs  down  to  the  ti])s  of  the  toes  in  the  stirrups. 
It  may  be  that  the  legs  receive  the  least  of  this  exercise, 
but  you  may  be  sure  that  if  the  rest  of  the  body  is  all  right 
the  legs  will  take  care  of  themselves. 

"Those  who  regularly  practice  horseback  riding  will  not 
be  troubled  with  a  sluggish  liver  nor  biliousness  due  to 
constipation,  for  this  exercise  in  the  saddle  is  above  all 
others  an  intestinal  stimulant.  Nor  under  normal  diet 
conditions  will  the   continual  rider  ever  suflFer  from  the 


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Benjamin  F.  Stein, 
Director 

Chairman,   Entertainment 
Committee 


tortures  of  indigestion,  as  the  exercise  is  a  most  direct  and 
active  tonic  to  the  digestive  functions.  Also,  it  greatly 
encourages  if  not  compels  deep  breathing,  which  increases 
the  supply  of  oxygen  and  so  develops  and  strengthens  the 
lungs,  which  in  turn  cleanses  the  blood.  Aside  from  the 
general  systematic  benefits  resulting  from  riding  a  horse 
the  exercise  is  delightfully  comfortable  and  gratifying,  and 
the  associations  pleasant,  for  a  horse  is  one  of  the  most 
friendly  and  agreeable  of  companions. 

"If  proper  exercise  is  not  regularly  taken,"  Dr.  Grayson 
adds,  "certain  organs  become  defective,  so  that  the  heart 
is  called  upon  to  work  at  a  higher  tension  in  forcing  the 
blood  through  the  system." 


From  the  October  20th  Issue  of  the  South 
Shore  Country  Club  Magazine 

South  Side  Equestrians  will  now  realize  and  appre- 
ciate the  good  work  of  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association 
when  they  ride  through  the  South  Park  System,  as  the 
new  bridle  paths  leading  from  Drexel  Boulevard  to  Wash- 
ington Park  are  completed,  as  is  also  the  Mounting  Sta- 
tion at  the  junction  of  the  two  new  additions. 

This  is  an  improvement  that  must  be  appreciated  by 
all  horseback  riders.  The  Association  is  now  turning  its 
attention  to  connecting  the  parks  by  bridle  paths  leading 
to  the  Forest  Preserve,  and  it  is  expected  that  very  soon 
one  of  these  paths  along  Peterson  Road,  on  the  north  side, 
will  be  completed. 


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The  Romance  of  the  Horse 

From   "Rider  and   Driver" 

A  FEW  years  ago  one  heard  on  all  sides  that  the 
horse  was  doomed  to  extinction,  would  soon  be 
found  only  in  a  museum  and  many  other  cheerful 
prognostications.  These  sentiments  were  voiced  by  all 
sorts  of  people,  and  for  all  sorts  of  reasons.  The  natural 
born  pessimist  took  special  delight  in  telling  you  all  about 
it,  rubbing  it  in  more  particularly  if  he  met  you  riding 
or  driving,  because,  in  common  with  all  of  his  breed,  he 
objects  to  seeing  anyone  enjoy  himself  in  a  natural  way. 
The  terribly  up-to-date  person,  in  order  to  show  you  how 
antiquated  you  and  your  ideas  were,  as  compared  with  his 
own,  voiced  much  the  same  ideas,  expressed  real  pity  for 
you  and  hoped  that  ere  long  you  would  see  the  error 
of  your  ways,  dispose,  at  any  price,  of  your  horses  and 
join  the  gas  machine  procession.  Others,  whose  tastes 
inclined  toward  mechanical  means  of  progression,  told 
you  that  the  world  was  entering  on  an  iron  and  steel  era 
and  that,  in  order  to  keep  your  end  up  in  either  business 
or  sport,  you  would  have  to  give  up  the  horse  or  be  left 
entirely  behind  in  the  race. 

The  most  earnest  and  vociferous  of  all  the  prophets 
was  the  man  connected  with  the  making  or  selling  of 
motor  vehicles.  He  pretended  to  believe,  himself,  and 
did  his  best  to  make  everyone  else  believe,  by  means  of 
garbled  facts  and  figures,  that  the  horse  as  an  aid  to 
business  or  recreation  was  done  for.  And  he  did  succeed 
in  doing  quite  a  bit  of  harm  to  the  horse  industry.  He 
showed  the  breeders  of  all  classes  of  horses  how  foolish 
it  was  to  continue  to  produce  an  article  for  which  the 
demand  was  already  lessening  and  would  soon  cease  to 
exist;  an  article  expensive  to  produce  and  grow  to  a 
marketable  age;  liable  to  all  kinds  of  accidents  from  its 


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birth  up,  which  would  soon  be  outclassed  in  every  field 
of  utility  or  amusement.  Where  he  was  successful  in 
convincing  a  large  or  small  breeder  that  to  continue  pro- 
duction was  to  court  bankruptcy,  the  lessened  production 
increased  thereby  the  scarcity  of  horses  and  also  very 
naturally  the  price  of  those  still  produced.  He  was  then 
able  to  put  forward  the  high  price  of  horses  as  another 
reason  why  one  should  not  buy  them  but  rather  invest 
in  a  motorized  vehicle  which  would  do  everything  but 
talk,  would  cover  a  fabulous  number  of  miles  at  a  nominal 
cost  and  which,  according  to  him,  would  last  practically 
forever.  (He  did  not  mention  the  sort  of  language  it 
would  produce  from  its  owner  when  a  tire  blew  up  or  it 
sidled  into  a  ditch.) 


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The  automobile  has  injured,  to  some  extent,  the  sale 
and  thereby  the  breeding  of  harness  horses,  whether  it  be 
the  light  leather  trotting  bred  horse  or  the  heavy  leather 
hackney.  But  notwithstanding  the  more  general  use  of 
automobiles,  the  carriage  horse  is  slowly  but  surely  making 
his  way  back  among  the  wealthy  people  of  New  York, 
Washington,  etc.  It  was  they  who  bought  the  first 
machines,  the  largest  and  most  expensive  and  ran  them 
to  their  limit.  They  found,  after  all,  that  there  was  not 
much  visible  difference  between  their  machines  and  those 
of  their  poorer  neighbors,  at  any  rate  to  the  average 
passer-by.  So  now  they  incline  to  use  their  automobiles 
instead  of  trains  and  go  back  to  horses  for  amusement. 

Human  brings  are  after  all  not  unlike  sheep.  One 
sheep  in  the  flock  sees  a  gap  in  the  fence  and  goes 
through  it;  the  rest  of  the  flock  follow  suit  without 
stopping  to  reason  why.  So  it  seems  extremely  probable 
that  the  lead  given  at  this  time  by  the  few  will  be  fol- 
lowed ere  long  by  the  many  and  that  the  harness  horse, 
while  he  may  never  entirely  regain  the  position  he  for- 
merly occupied,  will  become  very  much  more  the  vogue 
than  during  the  last  few  years. 

The  demand  for  horses  to  be  used  under  the  saddle 
for  such  purposes  as  road  and  park  riding,  hunting,  polo 
and  overseeing  farm  operations,  stock  driving,  etc.,  as  well 
as  for  ponies  for  children  of  all  ages  and  sizes,  has  increased 
enormously  both  in  town  and  country.  The  bridle  paths  of 
practically  all  the  large  cities  are  so  overcrowded  that  the 
facilities  for  riding  will  have  to  be  increased  largely  in 
the  near  future.  Durland's,  which  is  not  only  the  largest 
and  best  equipped  riding  academy  in  America  but  in 
the  world,  has  its  accommodations  for  privately  owned 
riding  horses  full  to  overflowing,  and  the  same  applies 
in  a  more  or  less  degree  to  all  the  smaller  establishments 
of  a  like  nature. 


Chas.  A.  Dunbar, 
Director 


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E.  }.  Lehmann, 

Director 
Chairman,  Finance 
Committee 


The  man  whose  pocket  is  plethoric  with  money,  whether 
acquired  or  inherited,  who  finds  his  adiposity  increasing 
to  an  alarming  degree,  his  liver  inactive,  his  mental  facul- 
ties dulled  and  his  zest  in  life  gone  and  who  finds  that 
even  sherry  and  bitters  or  cocktails  (if  he  is  lucky  enough 
in  this  over-virtuous  age  to  have  such  things)  do  not 
enable  him  to  get  up  a  semblance  of  an  appetite  for  his 
three  meals  per  diem,  goes  to  his  doctor  to  find  what 
is  the  matter  with  him.  If  his  physician  is  up  to  date 
and  does  not  need  to  keep  him  on  tap  as  a  meal  ticket, 
he  will  tell  him  to  buy  a  high  stepping  hack  (saddle 
horse),  ride  for  an  hour  every  morning  before  breakfast, 
have  a  cold  shower  and  a  good  rub  down  on  coming 
back  and  report  to  him  in  ten  days  or  a  fortnight.  Our 
friend  may  require  cushions  in  his  chair  for  a  few  days 
but  that  will  soon  wear  off.  He  will  find  his  breeches 
buttons  becoming  less  and  less  strained  round  his  waist, 
his  mental  faculties  clearer  and  more  alert  and  his  appe- 
tite returning  to  such  an  extent  that  the  high  cost  of 
living  will  become  a  concrete  instead  of  an  abstract 
quantity.  No  matter  what  his  age  he  will  bid  defiance  to 
Father  Time  and  his  good  doctor  will  see  him  no  more. 

So  much  for  the  benefit  an  adult  can  derive  from  the 
animal  which  was  in  the  near  future  to  become  extinct. 

There  is  nothing  under  the  sun  that  makes  and  shapes 
a  child  both  mentally  and  physically  and  teaches  it  the 
way  it  should  go  like  the  possession  of  a  pony.  And  to  it 
add  a  dog.  Riding  teaches  a  child  to  think  clearly,  to 
act  quickly  and  to  keep  its  temper  under  control.  A  pony 
teaches  it  a  love  for  animals  and  whether  it  be  used 
purely  for  amusement,  as  a  means  of  going  to  and  from 
school  or  for  any  other  purpose,  there  is  nothing  can 
touch  it  as  a  means  of  building  up  a  sane  mind  and  a 
sound  body.  For  quite  a  young  child,  a  small  Shetland 
pony  is  the  best  playmate  it  can  have. 


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Committee 


A  child  can  begin  its  association  with  horses  and  get 
its  daily  airing  and  exercise  long  before  it  can  walk  by 
being  put  in  a  pannier  on  a  steady  pony's  back.  The  nurse 
will  find  it  much  easier  to  lead  the  pony  than  to  push  a 
perambulator  and  will  be  much  less  likely  to  stop  and 
gossip  with  her  friends  to  the  possible  detriment  of  her 
charge.  Later  on  the  child  will  get  its  first  lesson  in  Heman  Gifford, 
riding,  either  bareback  or  on  a  pilch  on  the  same  pony,  chairm 
As  time  goes  on,  a  Welsh  or  Exmoor  pony  will  take  the  North  Side  Rides 
place  of  the  Shetland  and  a  real  ability  to  ride  will  then 
be  necessary.  The  next  step  will  be  a  cob  or  pony  of 
the  polo  type,  not  too  wide,  from  14  to  14.2  hands  high. 
The  youngster  now  nearing  maturity  should  by  this  time 
be  able  to  sit  and  handle  anything  on  four  legs  and  have 
an  alert  mind,  a  clean,  sound  body,  self-control  and  a 
proper  understanding  of  the  meaning  and  importance  of 
prompt  obedience.  All  things  of  the  greatest  value  to 
man  or  woman. 

We  do  not,  of  course,  deny  the  necessity  for  and  utility 
of,  motor  vehicles  of  all  descriptions,  as  there  is  a  place 
for  everything.  But  we  wonder  what  results  along  the 
above  lines  you  would  have  been  likely  to  have  achieved 
had  we  substituted  a  gas  machine  for  the  so-called  obsolete 
horse  ? 


Telephone  Main  1990 

names  of  all  prospective  members,  and  application  blanks 
will  be  promptly  mailed.  We  are  after  three  thousand 
for  1921. 


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HUNTING  COSTUME 


PAUK  OR  EVENING  WEAR 


IN  MUFTI 


Good  Form  for  Women  in  the  Field  of  Sport 


From   The   "Rider  and   Driver" 
By  BELLE  BEACH 


SO  MANY  questions  have  come  up  about  women's 
wear  in  the  show  ring,  the  fitness  and  unfitness,  that 
I  shall  endeavor  to  give  the  "appointments"  for  dif- 
ferent classes  in  their  order.  For  evening  and  park  classes 
a  woman  should  wear  a  dark  habit  of  some  appropriate 
material  either  melton,  or  dark  blue  whipcord.  Vel- 
vet collars  may  be  worn,  but  this  is  a  matter  of  taste.  The 
coat  is  made  in  two  styles,  one,  straight  with  two  buttons, 
cutaway  in  front  and  with  a  bit  of  a  flare;  surely  nothing 
looks  smarter  than  a  well  cut  shadbelly  with  appropriate 
waistcoat. 


This  type  of  coat  must  be  well  cut  and  should  fit  as 
well  as  a  man's  evening  coat.  High  collar  and  a  smart 
tie  of  some  sort  look  very  well,  but  to  my  mind,  noth- 
ing is  more  appropriate  than  a  high  white  stock  well 
tied.  White,  buff  or  tan  gloves  may  be  worn.  Of  course,  a 
top  hat  and  black  boots  (I  prefer  patent  leather.)  A  swag- 
ger stick  should  be  carried  and  a  flower  in  the  buttonhole 
completes  this  costume. 


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In  hunting  classes,  "appointments"  must  be  absolutely 
correct.  The  habit  is  usually  of  dark  melton,  the  collar 
should  be  of  the  "colors"  of  the  hunt,  the  buttons  stamped 
with  the  hunt  insignia;  a  waistcoat  is  worn,  same  color 
as  the  collar.  It  usually  has  five  buttons.  Buckskin  or 
dogskin  gloves  may  be  worn ;  a  crop  with  a  thong  is  carried. 
Under  the  flap  of  the  saddle  a  pair  of  storm  gloves  are 
featured.  On  the  right  side  of  the  saddle,  back  of  the  flap, 
a  sandwich  box  is  buckled.  In  that  sandwich  box  is  a 
flask  and  a  sandwich  case.  If  the  class  calls  for  "appoint- 
ments," there  must  be  a  sandwich  in  the  case  and  some 
sherry  or  port  in  the  flask — if  you  can  get  it.  A  top  hat 
is  worn  and  always  a  hatguard  for  hunting.  Buckskin  or 
leather  breeches  are  really  the  "swankest"  thing  to  wear, 
but  difiicult  to  obtain  in  these  days.  However,  breeches 
of  some  brown  or  tan  material  or  cords  are  equally  correct. 
The  boots  must  be  of  black  calfskin  and  patent  leather 
tops  (similar  to  a  man's  "cubbing"  boots). 

In  mufti,  one  has  a  bit  more  license  as  to  color  and 
material.  Tweeds  and  whipcords  of  tan,  brown,  gray,  or 
even  blue  are  worn.  Smart  collars  with  gay  colored  neck- 
ties, well  tied  are  perfectly  appropriate.  A  pot  hat  or 
even  a  soft  hat  may  be  worn  well  down  on  the  head.  Tan 
boots  (I  prefer  the  leg  of  thin,  soft  leather),  or  a  boot 
called  a  field  boot  looks  well  with  this  sort  of  get-up. 

For  ladies'  driving  classes,  pair  or  single,  I  think  great 
care  should  be  taken  in  selection  of  the  costume.  One 
can  dress  in  two  distinct  ways,  either  in  essentially  tailor- 
made  clothes,  or  charming  afternoon  costume,  any  color, 
as  long  as  it  is  not  too  gay,  which  looks  beautiful  in  a 
George  IV  class.  Great  care  should  be  taken  as  to  the 
fitness  of  the  hat.  Too  large  a  hat  coming  down  over  the 
shoulders  spoils  an  otherwise  perfect  line  to  this  most 
perfect  of  all  lady's  turnouts. 


Sleeves  may  be  to  the  elbow,  no  shorter,  or  to  the  wrist; 
gloves  of  tan,  gray  or  white.  A  card  case  with  a  fresh  pair 
of  gloves  folded  in  it,  tucked  in  at  the  side  of  the  seat, 
gives  a  smart  and  well  turned-out  look.  A  raincoat  with 
umbrella  and  storm  gloves  must  be  carried  in  the  car- 
riage, also  the  man  must  have  his  mackintosh  and  storm 
hat-cover  under  the  seat. 

In  giving  the  "appointments"  for  these  diff"erent  classes 
I  wish  to  emphasize  the  fitness  of  riding  clothes.  Several 
years  ago,  when  fewer  ladies  rode  in  the  horse  shows  and 
riding  astride  was  not  taken  up  to  the  extent  it  is  now, 
clothes  were  more  carefully  and  better  made.  The  few 
women  who  rode,  though  looking  old-fashioned  to  us  now, 
were  more  appropriately  dressed  than  the  average  woman 
you  see  riding  in  the  park  today.  Even  in  riding  astride 
a  woman  can  look  smart  if  she  is  carefully  and  well  tail- 
ored. My  point  of  view  for  women  riding  astride  is  that 
they  should  be  quietly  and  inconspicuously  dressed, 
breeches  and  boots  and  coat  cut  on  well-made  men's  tailor 
type  of  clothes.  The  hair  should  be  worn  particularly 
pulled  back  and  the  hat  well  down.  In  the  appointment 
classes,  when  women  ride  astride,  I  would  suggest  a  pot 
hat,  dark  coat,  whipcords,  black  boots,  with  patent  leather 
tops,  garters  and  spurs  if  worn  put  on  properly. 


Group  of  brood  mares 
of  O.  W.  Lehmann, 
Chesney  Farm,  Lake 
Villa.  III. 


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Forest  Preserves 

By  CHAS.  H    WACKER 
Chairman,  Chicago  Plan  Commission 


HAS  there  ever  been  a  real  baby  who,  if  given  the 
choice  between  a  horse  and  a  doll,  has  not  grabbed 
for  the  horse?  Does  not  every  boy  beg  for  a 
"horsey"  long  before  he  knows  what  it  means  to  ride  or 
drive  one?  Are  there  any  children,  or  have  there  ever 
been  any,  who  have  not  craved  to  ride  or  own  a  pony? 
What  child  or  grown-up  has  not  gleaned  beneficial  human- 
itarian lessons  from  "Black  Beauty"? 

If  the  horse  coidd  talk  he  would  tell  us,  and  he  could 
sincerely  do  so,  that  we  have  failed  to  appreciate  fully  his 
intelligence,  his  loyalty,  the  health-giving  and  thrilling 
pleasures  he  has  helped  us  enjoy,  and  his  willingness  to 
serve  unto  death.  He  would  tell  us  that  all  he  asks  in 
return  is  a  kind  word;  humane  treatment  while  in  service 
and  the  same  consideration  after  he  has  exhausted  his 
physical  strength  at  the  behest  of  man.  He  could  remind 
us  of  the  very  important  part  he  has  played  in  the  making 
of  history,  not  only  on  the  battlefield,  but  also  in  the 
economic  field,  where  his  service  has  been  and  still  is 
invaluable. 

From  time  immemorial  the  horse  has  symbolized 
strength  and  faithfulness  and  his  vigor  and  spirit  have 
been  perpetuated  by  the  artists  of  all  ages  in  statue  and 
monument.  However,  my  subject  is  not  the  horse,  but 
Forest  Preserves. 


What  does  the  law  say  in  regard  to  creating  forest 
preserves? 

"Any  forest  preserve  district  organized  under  this  Act 
shall  have  the  power  to  create  forest  preserves,  and  for 
that  purpose  shall  have  power  to  acquire,  in  the  manner 
hereinafter  provided,  and  hold  lands  containing  one  or 
more  natural  forests  or  parts  thereof,  for  the  purpose  of 
protecting  and  preserving  the  flora  and  fauna  and  scenic 
beauties  within  such  district,  and  to  protect  and  preserve 
such  lands  as  nearly  as  may  be  in  their  natural  condition 
for  the  purpose  of  the  education,  pleasure  and  recreation 
of  the  public." 

We  do  not  yet  fully  realize  that  no  city  in  the  world  has 
greater  potentialities  than  the  City  of  Chicago  with  its 
beautiful  lake-front  setting  and  its  wonderful  forest  pre- 
serves encircling  the  entire  city  and  that  it  can  be  made, 
not  only  the  most  beautiful,  attractive  and  prosperous  city 
on  this  continent,  but  also — owing  to  its  wonderfully 
strategic  position  at  the  head  of  the  great  Mississippi  Val- 
ley— the  greatest  metropolis  of  the  country,  if  not  of  the 
world. 

We  must  never  lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  in  these  times, 
particularly  in  urban  centers  where  the  physique  of  man 
has  so  seriously  deteriorated,  everything  within  reason 
must  be  done,  and  done  soon,  to  give  people  more  light, 
more  air  and  more  playgrounds.  The  acquisition  of  the 
forest  preserves  in  Cook  County  is  a  signal  forward  move- 
ment in  supplying  a  medium  for  healthful  recreation. 

The  park,  boulevard  and  forest  preserve  systems  of 
Chicago  offer  a  splendid  opportunity  for  the  development 
and  extension  of  bridle  paths,  convenient  and  accessible 
to  every  section  of  the  city.  Wherever  possible  bridle 
paths  should  connect  the  park  systems  of  the  city,  as  well 
as  the  park  systems  with  the  forest  preserves. 


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I  Wonder  What  a  Horse  Thinks  About  on  the  Bridle  Path? 

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(Continued  from  Page  29) 

The  forest  preserve  system — stretching  for  miles  along 
the  border  of  the  city  and  already  embracing  more  than 
17,000  acres — offers  a  truly  wonderful  possibility  for  an 
outer  system  of  bridle  paths.  This  encircling  system  of 
forest  parks — when  taken  in  conjunction  with  the  exist- 
ing interior  boulevards  and  the  proposed  lake  front  devel- 
opment— makes  a  circuit  of  about  one  hundred  miles. 

Since  the  first  forest  preserve  was  purchased  in  Palos 
Park,  August  3rd,  1916,  over  17,000  acres  have  been 
acquired  out  of  a  possible  35,000.  Already  these  preserves 
are  being  very  extensively  used.  Today  there  can  be  seen 
in  the  various  preserves  primitive  virgin  timber,  a  pro- 
fusion of  wild  flowers,  rivers,  creeks,  natural  and  artificial 
lakes,  which  are  used  for  swimming  and  bathing,  ravines, 
athletic  fields,  golf  grounds,  picnic  parties,  family  out- 
ings, Campfire  Girls  and  Boy  Scout  camps — in  fact,  camp- 
ers of  all  kinds. 

The  148  acres  of  forest  land  presented  to  the  Forest 
Preserve  District  by  Mrs.  Harold  F.  McCormick,  to  be 
used  for  a  zoological  garden  will  be  patterned  after  one 
of  the  finest  in  the  world.  Lovers  of  birds  find  almost 
every  kind  of  bird  known  in  the  Northwest,  including 
quail  and  pheasant.  The  rivers  and  creeks  are  being 
stocked  by  the  Illinois  Fish  and  Game  Commission  and 
will  soon  become  a  great  source  of  pleasure  to  the  fisher- 
man. Arborists,  florists  and  horticulturists  revel  in  end- 
less variety  of  trees,  flowers  and  shrubs — some  of  them 
very  rare.  Wonderful  scenic  beauties  are  now  preserved 
and  many  more  will  be.  All  of  this  for  the  education, 
pleasure  and  recreation  of  the  public. 

The  humanitarian,  educational  and  recreational  value 
of  these  country  playgrounds  cannot  be  computed  in  dol- 
lars and  cents. 


The  Chicago  Plan  from  its  inception  has  recognized  the 
vital  importance  of  creating  and  maintaining  health-giv- 
ing recreational  mediums,  and  the  following  quotation 
from  the  book,  "Plan  of  Chicago,"  prepared  under  the 
direction  of  The  Commercial  Club  by  Daniel  Hudson 
Burnham  and  Edward  H.  Bennett  in  1909,  should  be  of 
interest  to  all  equestrians: 

"No  city  conditions,  however  ideal  in  themselves,  supply 
the  craving  for  real  out-of-door  life,  for  forests  and  wild 
flowers  and  streams.  Human  nature  demands  such  simple 
and  wholesome  pleasures  as  come  from  roaming  the  woods, 
from  riding  and  driving  through  them,  from  rowing  and 
canoeing  and  from  sports  and  games  that  require  large 
areas. 

"The  increasing  number  of  holidays,  the  growing  use 
of  Sunday  as  a  day  of  rest  and  refreshment  for  body  and 
mind,  tired  by  the  exacting  tasks  of  the  week,  together 
with  a  constant  improvement  in  the  scale  of  living,  all 
make  imperative  such  means  of  enjoyment  as  these  large 
country  parks  wiD  provide. 

"Moreover,  the  development  of  especially  beautiful  sec- 
tions will  give  marked  individuality  to  our  outlying  park 
and  forest  preserve  system,  for  it  is  by  seizing  on  the 
salient  features  of  a  landscape  and  emphasizing  them  that 
the  charm  and  the  dignity  of  a  city  are  enhanced." 

Great  credit  is  due  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners 
of  Cook  County,  Mr.  Peter  Reinberg,  its  president,  and 
to  the  Forest  Preserve  Commissioners  of  the  Forest  Pre- 
serve District,  for  the  manner  in  which  the  forest  preserves 
have  been  acquired.  It  is  an  outstanding  feature  of  pub- 
lic service  weU  performed. 


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Plate  by  courtesy  Rand  McNally  &  Co. 

A  Few  of  the  Bet^utiful  Vhtas  at  South  Shore  Country  Club,  as  Pictiwed  by  Hance  of  Detroit — and  Some  of  Our  Members 


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The  South  Shore  Country  Club 

By  JOHN  G.  CAMPBELL,  President 


FROM  its  inception  the  South  Shore  Country 
Club  has  been  deeply  interested  in  eques- 
trianism. In  fact,  it  will  be  remembered 
that  our  Club  is  in  many  respects  the  successor 
to  the  Washington  Park  Club,  and  our  Horse 
Show  is  the  modern  equivalent  to  "Derby  Day" 
of  years  ago.  It  is  only  natural,  therefore,  that 
the  South  Shore  Country  Club  should  feel 
deeply  interested  in  the  Chicago  Equestrian 
Association,  which  organization  is  devoted  to 
the  promotion  of  an  interest  in  saddle  horses 
and  the  pleasures  and  camaraderie  enjoyed  in 
horseback  riding.  Our  annual  Horse  Show  is,  in  the 
opinion  of  many  of  our  members,  our  greatest  annual 
event,  and  for  its  success  we  owe  a  large  debt  to  the  Chi- 
cago Equestrian  Association,  whose  officers  and  members 
are  always  active  as  executives  and  exhibitors. 

Through  the  co-operation  of  Chicago  horse  lovers,  our 
Horse  Show  has  grown  to  be  an  international  exhibition 
with  the  best  equines  of  this  country  and  Canada  entered 
in  the  different  classes.  It  is  regarded  socially  as  the 
premier  event  of  the  Spring  in  the  mid-west. 

Moreover,  it  is  an  event  emphasizing  the  democracy 
of  our  Club,  where  fair  decisions  are  made  in  every  event 
and  it  matters  not  whether  the  entry  is  made  by  one 
of  the  famous  stables  or  by  an  unknown  exhibitor.  The 
rules  of  true  sportsmanship  are  paramount,  a  spirit  which 
is  fostered  in  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association. 

That  organization  was,  last  year,  responsible  for  one 
of  the  most  attractive  features  of  our  Horse  Show  when 


it  became  sponsor  for  the  Children's  Day  Exhi- 
bition held  on  Saturday  morning  of  Horse  Show 
week.  Through  the  efforts  of  the  members  of 
that  Association,  more  than  one  thousand  chil- 
dren, many  of  whom  had  never  seen  a  horse 
show,  were  treated  to  a  glimpse  of  some  of  the 
best  animals  in  the  world.  These  children  were 
brought  to  the  Club  and  taken  home  in  convey- 
ances furnished  by  the  members  of  the  Chicago 
Equestrian  Association.  While  at  the  Club 
the  youngsters  were  made  happy  by  tasty 
refreshments.  It  was  a  great  day  for  both  the 
children  and  the  Club. 

Members  of  the  South  Shore  Country  Club  have  always 
been  greatly  interested  in  co-operating  with  the  members 
of  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association  in  extending  the 
bridle  paths  in  the  South  Park  System.  By  reason  of 
this  effort  the  bridle  path  has  now  been  extended  to  the 
southeast  corner  of  Jackson  Park  immediately  adjoining 
our  Club,  so  that  it  is  now  possible  to  mount  one's  horse 
at  our  Club  stables  and  ride  through  the  entire  South 
Park  System  on  bridle  paths. 

Horseback  riding  is  a  sport  which  has  withstood  the 
rising  tide  of  automobile  popularity  and  with  such  an 
organization  as  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association  behind 
this  sport,  there  is  undoubtedly  a  large  future  for  eques- 
trianism in  Chicago,  and  the  members  of  the  Chicago 
Equestrian  Association  may  continue  to  rely  upon  the 
active  co-operation  of  the  South  Shore  Country  Club  at 
all  times. 


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The  Sport  of  Kings 

By  MR.  JOHN  CXAY 

Master  of  the  North  Northumberland  Foxhounds 


IN  THE  States  we  talk  about  hunting  and  it  means 
shooting,  but  in  the  British  Isles  hunting  means  fol- 
lowing the  fox,  the  deer  or  the  innocent  hare.  The 
fox  hunter  generally  looks  down  with  pity  on  a  man  who 
rides  after  a  "carted"  deer  turned  loose,  or  follows  the  gen- 
tle hare,  who  when  pressed  shows  a  cunning  worthy  of 
reynard.  Hounds  of  different  sizes  are  used.  Long  years 
of  experience  have  demonstrated  what  is  needed  in  size, 
color,  pace  and  stamina.  In  the  forest  at  Fontainbleau 
they  use  an  immense  hound  to  follow  the  wild  deer  who 
is  harbored  early  in  the  morning,  while  at  Arcachon, 
below  Bordeaux,  where  they  hunt  the  wild  boar,  a  rough- 
coated  hound  something  like  the  English  otter  hound  is 
popular  and  well  fitted  to  find  his  way  through  the  under- 
brush and  pine  woods  of  that  region. 

My  life  has  been  spent  entirely,  so  far  as  hunting  is 
concerned,  with  fox  hounds.  Sixty  years  ago  as  a  very 
small  boy  my  father  entered  me  to  this  great  and  glorious 
sport,  a  very  small  tricky  Shetland  pony  being  my  steed. 
We  saw  a  lot  of  sport.  Then  came  a  cob  about  fourteen 
hands  high  and  at  last  a  horse;  then  a  stud  of  horses. 

In  farming  days  a  pair  of  knee  breeches  with  leggings, 
a  rough  Tweed  coat  and  a  cap  made  up  our  sporting  tog- 
geiy.  Then  came  jack  boots,  corduroy  riding  breeches,  a 
black  coat,  a  top  hat  and  a  white  stock.  Lastly  a  red  coat 
made  by  Tantz,  also  a  pair  of  white  breeches  and  a  fancy 
waistcoat. 

Bobby  Peale,  or  his  successor,  made  your  top  boots. 
Those  with  a  velvet  cap,  made  even  an  ordinary  horseman 
look  quite  smart.     Perhaps  we  carried  this  matter  of  dress 


too  far.  The  gallant  Shore,  huntsman  for  many  a  year  to 
the  Duke  of  Buccleuch,  thought  so;  still,  most  men  have 
a  sneaking  admiration  for  a  well-cut  coat  or  an  immacu- 
late pair  of  top  boots  as  you  ride  up  to  the  "meet." 

My  career  in  hunting  began  in  a  modest  way,  as  said 
above.  Once  a  week  when  hounds  met  near  your  home 
you  would  steal  away  after  a  morning  on  the  farm  and 
join  the  joyous  chase.  Those  were  halcyon  days,  rich  in 
experience  and  as  you  rubbed  shoulders  with  a  cosmopoli- 
tan lot  some  of  the  rough  edges  of  youth  were  rubbed  off. 

When  I  was  a  boy  the  Earl  of  Wennyss  hunted  Berwick- 
shire and  North  Northumberland.  If  you  have  read  Hand- 
Icy  Cross,  the  greatest  sporting  novel  ever  written,  you  will 
recollect  that  when  Richard  Bragg  applied  to  the  immor- 
tal Jorrocks  for  a  huntsman's  place,  one  of  his  own  recom- 
mendations was  as  follows:  "I  will  hunt  a  fox  with  any 
man — with  the  great  Lord  Elcho  himself." 

The  Elcho  of  that  day  became  the  Wennyss  of  my  day 
and  I  remembered  the  old  man  coming  up  to  the  meet 
with  a  very  flashy  pack  of  hounds.  When  I  knew  him  first 
he  was  past  the  three  score  and  ten,  but  he  carried  the 
horn  and  I  hunted  with  him  in  his  eightieth  year.  In  his 
young  days  he  was  a  wonderful  sportsman.  For  some 
years  he  lived  in  Kelso,  Scotland,  a  beautiful  town  in  the 
heart  of  a  romantic  and  very  sporting  neighborhood. 
There  he  kept  a  pack  of  harriers.  He  would  go  out  early 
in  the  morning  and  account  for  a  hare,  possibly  two.  Then 
he  joined  the  Duke  of  Buccleuch's  fox  hounds  at  10:45, 
then  hunted  by  the  famous  Will  Williamson  and  saw  them 

kill    a  fox.  (Continued  on  Page  121) 


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Thos.  E. 
on  "Kenttic 


Edellyn  Farms 

Wilson,  Illinois 

EDELLYN  FARMS,  the  name  given  to  Mr.  Thomas  E. 
Wilson's  country  home,  is  a  combination  of  the 
names  of  his  daughter.  Miss  Helen  Wilson,  and  his 
son,  Edward  Foss  Wilson.  The  estate  lies  within  a  short 
distance  from  Lake  Forest,  though  the  nearest  railroad 
station  is  Wilson,  111. 

Edellyn  Farms  consists  of  approximately  450  acres  and 
is  farmed  intensively.  Grains  of  various  kinds  are  raised 
for  feeding  to  the  live  stock,  which  is  Mr.  Wilson's  prin- 
cipal diversion.  He  specializes  in  high-grade  saddle  and 
harness  horses,  Clydesdale  draft  horses,  besides  devoting 
much  attention  to  breeding  and  raising  Shorthorn  cattle 
and  other  pure  bred  live  stock. 

In  the  summer  months,  Mr.  Wilson  and  his  family  spend 
most  of  their  time  at  the  country  home,  while  in  winter, 
weather  permitting,  Mr.  Wilson  finds  recreation  in  making 
week-end  trips  to  his  farm. 


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Edellyn  Farm  House 

"The  Saddle  Stallion  'Kentucky's  Choice' "  shown  on 
Page  36  has  been  a  winner  for  many  years  in  all  parts  of 
the  country,  in  the  five  gaited  and  model  classes  and  is 
one  of  the  most  celebrated  sires  living.  In  addition  to 
this,  Mr.  Wilson  has  been  using  an  imported  thorough- 
bred stallion  and  is  now  developing  a  lot  of  very  high 
grade  youngsters,  suitable  for  park  or  hunting. 


Type  of  Clydesdale  Bred  at  Edellyn  Farms 

The  Farm  is  located  on  Telegraph  Road,  five  miles  north 
of  Deerpath  Ave.,  where  visitors  interested  in  high  grade 
live  stock  are  always  welcome. 


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"Mile.  Uenise"  and  "Bunkie"  Arriving  at 
Camp  Devens 


"Crabbett"   at   Ft.   Ethan    Allen 
Before  the  Start 


"liustcm  Bey"  and  "Crabbett"  Arriving 
at  Camp  Devens 


The  1920  Endurance  Test  for  Cavalry  Horses 

By  ALBERT  W.  HARRIS 


THE  second  300-mile  ride  for  the  United  States 
Mounted  Service  Cup  was  held  October  11  to  15, 
inclusive,  over  the  old  course  from  Fort  Ethan  Allen, 
near  Burlington,  Vermont,  to  Camp  Devens,  at  Ayer, 
Mass.  Stops  were  made  as  formerly  at  Northfield,  St. 
Johnsbury,  White  River  Junction,  Vermont,  and  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  the  route  being  approximately  sixty 
miles  between  the  night  stops.  Some  of  the  most  noted 
horses  in  the  country,  ridden  by  well-known  horsemen, 
were  among  the  contestants  and  more  interest  than  ever 
was  taken  in  the  event  by  the  Army  and  horsemen  gener- 
ally on  account  of  the  large  number  of  entries  and  the 
particularly  difficult  conditions. 


Special  interest  developed  in  observing  the  ability  of 
the  horses  to  carry  the  extra  weight  and  to  negotiate  the 
distance  in  less  time  than  taken  last  year.  This  year 
each  horse  carried,  including  rider  and  equipment,  245 
pounds  instead  of  200  pounds  required  last  year,  and  the 
rules  required  the  course  to  be  covered  each  day  in 
thirteen  hours,  with  a  minimum  of  nine  hours,  while  last 
year  they  were  allowed  fifteen  hours,  with  a  minimum 
of  ten  hours.  It  was  not  expected  that  the  horses  could 
make  as  good  time  this  year  with  the  extra  forty-five 
pounds  of  weight  as  they  did  last  year,  but,  to  the  sur- 
prise of  almost  everybody,  they  made  it  in  less  time. 
For  example,  the  horses  winning  last  year  made  the  route 


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each  day  in  ten  hours  or  under  eleven  hours.  This 
year  it  was  made  in  nine  hours  and  under  ten  hours  and 
on  one  or  two  occasions  some  of  the  best  horses  came 
up  to  the  post  in  less  than  nine  hours,  but  were  not 
allowed  to  finish  imtil  the  nine  hours  had  expired.  One 
horse  particularly,  Crabbet,  a  thoroughbred  Arabian, 
covered  the  61.8  miles  on  the  fourth  day  in  eight  hours 
and  seven  minutes.  He  is  owned  by  W.  R.  Brown,  ol 
Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  and  was  ridden  for  three  days 
by  H.  S.  Gregory,  but  the  last  two  by  H.  E.  (Jack)  Fretz, 
famous  here  in  Australia  for  his  riding  ability.  The 
weather  this  year  was  ideal  for  the  test  and  the  horses 
were  in  better  condition,  which  had  a  great  deal  to  do 
with  their  performance. 

The  route  was  especially  adapted  to  test  the  endurance 
and  courage  of  the  horses  and  the  riders  as  well,  as  all 
kinds  of  roads  were  traversed  and  the  hilly  or  mountain- 
ous character  of  some  of  the  country  made  it  almost  im- 
possible for  a  horse  not  accustomed  to  the  hills  to  make 
a  good  showing.  The  results  indicate,  however,  that 
the  horses  participating  were  in  excellent  condition,  as 
practically  all  of  them  had  been  worked  over  this  country 
in  training;  so,  while  nearly  every  horse  had  a  minor 
mishap  or  two,  none  of  them  or  the  riders  were  hurt 
and  those  that  finished  looked  fit  to  continue  the  forced 
march,  although,  no  doubt,  if  the  course  had  called  for 
another  day's  ride,  two  or  three  of  those  that  finished 
would  have  turned  up  missing.  As  it  was,  only  ten  of  the 
twenty-seven  that  started  from  Fort  Ethan  AUen  reached 
Camp  Devens. 

The  judges  were  very  particular  not  to  allow  a  horse 
to  continue  in  the  contest  if  he  showed  any  signs  of 
lameness  or  distress  of  any  kind,  so  that,  while  the  Society 
for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals  was  on  hand 
through  its  representatives  at  the  state  lines  and  at  the 
stables   at   night,  they   complimented    the   judges   on   the 


Kemah  Prince  Ridden   by  Albert   IT  .  Harris 

splendid  condition  of  the  horses  and  the  way  in  which 
the  contest  was  carried  out.  The  start  the  first  day  was 
made  between  6:00  a.  m.  and  6:30  a.  m.  and  gradually 
advanced,  until  the  last  day  it  was  made  between  5:00 
a.  m.  and  5:30  a.  m.,  so  as  to  enable  all  the  horses  to 
finish  before  dark. 

There  were  thirty-four  horses  out  of  about  fifty  which 
had  been  in  training  for  the  event  which  were  ready  to 
go  and  were  entered  for  the  Contest  on  September  15, 
but  of  these  only  twenty-seven  qualified  and  started. 
Among  the  twenty-seven  were:  6  Morgans  or  grade  Mor- 
gans, 9  thoroughbreds  or  grades,  10  Arabians  or  grades, 
2  standard  bred. 

Among  the  thoroughbreds  were  such  famous  horses 
as  Moscowa  and  David  Craig,  winners  of  long  distance 
races  on  the  turf,  entered  by  the  Thoroughbred  Endurance 
Test  Club  of  Kentucky.  Helmet,  winner  of  many  a  long 
distance  race  and  owned  by  Edward  R.  Bradley,  was  also 
on  hand,  but  went  lame  and  was  withdrawn  just  before 
the  start.     These  horses,  including  Majolla  and  U-23,  had 

(Continued  on   Page   42) 


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Mrs.  Stuyvesant  Peabody 
Jumping  at  Hinsdale,  III. 


Of  great  interest  to  lovers  of  horses  was  the  First  Annual 
Horse  Show  recently  held  at  Mayslake  Farm,  the  country 
estate  of  F.  S.  Peabody,  near  Hinsdale,  Illinois. 

Among  the  exhibitors  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  K.  Bering, 
Mrs.  Loula  Long  Combs  of  Kansas  City,  O.  W.  Lehmann, 
Woodin  Farms,  John  R.  Thompson,  Mrs.  Stuyvesant  Pea- 
body, B.  L.  Behr,  WiUiam  E.  Dee,  Robert  C.  Wheeler  and 
Mrs.  Francis  S.  Peabody. 

Miss  Helen  Morton,  riding  "Miss  Bunty,"  was  one  of  the 
first  blue  ribbon  winners.  She  was  presented  with  the 
horse  by  Mrs.  Peabody  after  the  event.  Revelation  and 
Reputation,  owned  by  Mrs.  Loula  Long  Combs,  attracted 
considerable  attention  as  winners  in  the  class  for  harness 
pairs. 

In  the  single  harness  pony  event  Mrs.  Jackson  K. 
Bering's  "Hawthorne  Bell"  won  the  honors.  Mrs.  O.  W. 
Lehmann,  riding  "Baby  Vampire,"  was  first  in  the  class 
for  three  gaited  saddle  horses,  with  "Homestead  Choice," 
owned  and  ridden  by  Mrs.  J.  M.  Harris,  a  close  second. 


"Cleo  Belle,"  owned  and  ridden  by  Charles  Piez,  was  an 
easy  winner  in  the  class  for  three  gaited  saddle  horses  of 
15:2  hands  and  over. 

The  high  jump  on  the  first  day,  won  by  Mrs.  Peabody's 
"Great  Heart,"  and  the  triple  bar  jump  on  the  second  day, 
by  Robert  C.  Wheeler's  "Sunny  Brook,"  were  to  many  the 
classic  events  of  the  show.  The  steeplechase  was  hotly 
contested  between  Mr.  Wheeler's  "Glodiva"  and  Mr.  Leh- 
mann's  "Shrapnel,"  with  "Shrapnel"  the  winner. 

All  the  expenses  were  paid  by  Mr.  Peabody  and  the 
gross  proceeds  donated  to  the  Salvation  Army.  The  show 
was  given  under  the  management  of  W.  S.  Blitz  of  New 
York,  with  R.  H.  Williams,  Jr.,  of  New  York,  E.  B.  Chase 
of  Philadelphia  and  Val  Crane  of  Chicago  as  judges.  The 
committee  on  arrangements  included  Prentiss  L.  Coonley, 
G.  G.  Woodin,  Edward  J.  Lehmann,  T.  E.  Wilson,  B.  L. 
Behr,  Charles  Piez,  W.  E.  Skinner,  O.  W.  Lehmann,  S. 
Peabody,  F.  O.  Butler,  Frederick  C.  McLaughlin,  and 
J.  K.  Bering,  chairman. 


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F.  S.  PEABODY.  Owner 

MAYSIAKR 

Hinsdale             FARM                "^^'''''^ 

IM  Wk' 

Hunters  and  Saddle 

HORSRS 

Breeders  of 

Big  Type  Poland  China  Hogs 

Single  Comb  Buff  Orpington  Chickens 

"Oldest  Strain  in  America" 

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been  sent  up  into  Vennont  for  training  and  were  supposed 
to  be  ready — at  any  rate  willing — to  carry  the  cup  back 
to  Kentucky.  Of  these  only  Moscowa,  ridden  by  Sam 
Velnor,  was  present  at  the  finish,  but  in  no  condition  to 
win  a  place.  Of  the  five  grade  thoroughbreds,  only  two 
finished,  Bunkie,  of  the  United  States  Remount  Service, 
ridden  by  Lieutenant  McCreery,  and  Mile.  Denise,  owned 
and  ridden  by  Major  Stanley  Koch,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
These  two  horses  made  the  pace  for  the  first  three  days 
and  caught  the  riders  of  the  Arabian  horses  napping. 

They  thought  these  horses  were  setting  a  pace  that 
could  not  be  kept  up  and  so,  when  it  was  too  late,  they 
started  to  make  up  the  lost  time,  but  these  grade 
thoroughbreds,  well  ridden  by  Lieutenant  McCreery  and 
Major  Koch,  stayed  the  entire  route  and  made  such  good 
time  every  day  that  they  secured  first  and  third  places, 
first  going  to  Mile.  Denise  and  third  to  Bunkie. 

Among  the  ten  Arabs  or  Arab  grades  were  such  horses 
as  Rustem  Bey,  who  finished  first  last  year,  but  was  dis- 
qualified on  account  of  developing  a  slight  lameness  the 
last  day;  Ramla,  who  won  the  Contest  last  year;  King- 
fisher, owned  and  ridden  by  Colonel  Frank  Tompkins  (he 
carried  Colonel  Tompkins  into  Mexico  with  General 
Pershing  and  won  second  place  last  year) ;  and  Crabbet, 
one  of  last  year's  contestants.  Two  other  Arabian  entries 
finished,  namely,  Noam  and  Kemali  Prince. 

Of  the  standard  bred  horses  there  were  only  two  entries 
by  John  E.  Madden,  Lord  of  the  Nursery  and  Avil  Watts. 
Neither  of  these  horses  finished. 

Among  the  six  Morgans  only  two  finished.  They  were 
Castor,  entered  by  the  Morgan  Horse  Farm,  which  made 
a  very  good  showing  last  year,  and  Dolly,  owned  by  Mr. 
Stillman,  president  of  the  Morgan  Horse  Club.  Dolly  was 
the  only  Morgan  to  get  a  place  and  that  was  the  last,  or 
sixth. 


Major  Koch,  who  won  the  cup  and  the  Arabian  Club 
medal,  and  Lieutenant  McCreery  rode  a  splendid  race, 
but  Rustem  Bey,  ridden  by  A.  A.  Langley,  and  Crabbet, 
ridden  by  Jack  Fretz,  both  Arabians,  owned  by  W.  R. 
Brown,  might  easily  have  changed  places  with  them  if 
they  had  been  allowed  to  go  faster  the  first  three  days. 
As  it  was,  Rustem  Bey  was  awarded  second  place  and  was 
the  only  horse  to  finish  in  perfect  condition,  and  Crabbet 
was  awarded  fifth  place.  Fourth  place  was  awarded  to  the 
Arabian  horse.  Kingfisher,  and  the  last  or  sixth  place  went 
to  Dolly,  Mr.  Stillman's  grey  Morgan  mare.  The  other 
four  horses  which  finished  did  so  in  the  following  order: 
Kemah  Prince,  Castor,  Moscowa,  and  Noam. 

The  relative  standing  of  the  ten  horses  which  finished, 
as  given  by  the  judges,  was  as  follows: 

Condition       Speed  Feed 

No.  and  Name  of  Horse  (50  Pos.)     (40  Pos.)       (10  Pos.)  Total 

1  Mile.  Denise 40  36.10  6.92  83.02 

2  Rustem    Bey 50  26.63  1.31  77.94 

3  Bunkie   35  36.17  .48  71.65 

4  Kingfisher    45  16.49  7.76  69.16 

5  Crabbet    30  24.90  6.10  61.00 

6  Castor   38  12.90  5.78  56.68 

7  Dolly   40  13.33  .58  53.91 

8  Noam    30  11.23  10.00  51.23 

9  Moscowa   25  25.50  .00  50.50 

10     Kemah  Prince    25  14.00  1.76  40.76 

All  of  the  horses  lost  weight  during  the  race.  Mile. 
Denise  lost  the  least,  only  25  pounds,  while  Noam  lost 
the  most,  65  pounds.  The  average  loss  was  about  50 
pounds  per  horse. 

The  list  of  prizes  was  as  follows:  First,  Mounted  Service 
Cup,  Arabian  Horse  Club  Medal,  and  $600;  Second,  $400; 
Third,  $300;  Fourth,  $200;  Fifth,  $150;  Sixth,  $100. 

These  percentages  are  not  as  high  as  those  made  last 
year,  when  Ramla  won  with  a  percentage  of  92,  but  the 


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added  weight  probably  accounts  for  the  lower  percentage 
this  year.  A  full  list  of  the  horses  that  started,  with  their 
breeding,  is  given  below,  which  shows  that:  None  out  of 
2  standard  bred  finished;  2  out  of  6  Morgans  or  grade 
Morgans  finished;  3  out  of  9  thoroughbreds  or  grade 
thoroughbreds  finished;  5  out  of  10  Arabs  or  grade  Arabs 
finished. 

Tliis  record  for  the  Arabian  horses  (which  are  the 
smallest),  with  245  pounds  up,  is  quite  remarkable  and 
is  no  doubt  as  much  in  their  favor  as  their  performance 
last  year,  when  they  won  all  the  places  with  two  hundred 
pounds  up. 


Name  of  Horse 


Breed 


Moscowa Thorobred  (Reg) . . 

Majolla Thorobred  (Reg) . . 

U-Twenty-three Thorobred  (Reg) , . 

David  Craig Thorobred  (Reg) . . 

Tar  Baby Grade  Thorobred. . 

Sally  Townsend Grade  Thorobred . . 

Bunkie Grade  Thorobred. 

1-2  bred 

Mile.  Denise Grade  Thorobred, 

J-a  bred 

Captain  Hurd Grade  Thorobred. . . 

Dawn Arab  (Reg) 

Rufili Arab  (Reg) 

Crabbett Arab  (Reg) 

Noam Arab  (Reg) 

Sargon Arab  (Reg) 

Ramla Arab  (Reg) 

Kemah  Prince Grade  Arab, 

^2  bred 

Kinglisher Grade  Arab. 

H  Arab. 

K  Thorobred . . . . 
Rustem  Bey Cross-bred,  H  Arab, 

J^  Standard 

Colon. Cross-bred,  .'2  Arab, 

J 2  Scotch  Pony.. . 

Lord  of  the  Nursery. . .  Standard-bred 

Avil  Watta Standard-bred 

Scotland Morgan  (Reg) 

Dolly Morgan  (Reg) 

Castor Morgan  (Reg) 

Golden  Glow Morgan  (Reg) 

Salsbury Grade  Morgan 

Queen Grade  Morgan 


Sex  Color  Owner 

Gelding .  . .  Bay Thorobred  Endurance  Test  Club 

Mare Chestnut  . .  Thorobred  Endurance  Test  Club 

Gelding . . .  Chestnut . ,  Thorobred  Endurance  Test  Club 
Gelding.  .  .Chestnut. .  Thorobred  Endurance  Test  Club 

Gelding  . .  Black Walter  C.  White 

Mare Black Col.  H.  S.  Neilson 


Gelding.  .  .Chestnut. .  .U.  S.  Remount  Service 


Mare . . . 
Gelding . 
Mare .  . . 
Stallion. 
Gelding . 
Mare .  . . 
Stallion . 
Mare .  . . 


Brown Capt.  DeF.  W.  Morton.  U.  S.  A. 

Bay U.S.  Cavalry 

Bay Albert  W.  Harris 

.  Sorrel Maj.  J.  L.  Plassmeyer,  U.  S.  A. 

. Chestnut... W.  R.  Brown 
.  Chestnut . . .  W,  R,  Brown 
. Chestnut... W.  R.  Brown 

Bay W.R.  Brown 


Gelding  .  Gray-roan.  Albert  W.  Harris 

Gelding  .  Bay Col.  Frank  Tompkins 

Gelding. .  Chestnut  .  W.  R.  Brown 


Gelding . 
Gelding . 
Gelding . 
Stallion. 
Mare.  .  . 
Gelding . 
Mare ,  .  . 
Gelding . 
Mare.  .  . 


.  Chestnut . . .  Spencer  Borden 

.Bay John  E.  Madden 

Bay John  E.  Madden 

.Chestnut. .  .Morgan  Horse  Farm 

.Gray C.  C.  Stilhnan 

.  Bay Morgan  Horse  Farm 

.  Chestnut. . .  Morgan  Horse  Club 
.Chestnut. .  .Morgan  Horse  Club 
. Chestnut... E.E.  Darling 


Aside  from  the  purely  military  character  of  the  Contest 
and  the  valuable  data  gathered  regarding  what  certain 
breeds  of  horses  can  do  was  the  personal  side.  It  is  a 
great  satisfaction  to  know  that  we  still  have  "game  sports" 
among  us.  Apparently  everybody  who  started  was  "game." 
One  man  arrived  at  Fort  Ethan  Allen  with  nine  stitches 
freshly  taken  in  his  arm  as  a  result  of  a  train  wreck  the 
day  before  and  he  started  on  the  ride  and  would  have  con- 
tinued if  the  judges  had  not  ordered  another  rider  to 
take  his  place.  Another  had  to  have  his  boot  cut  off  at 
the  end  of  the  third  day,  but  he  had  ridden  through, 
brought  in  his  horse  in  good  condition,  and  cared  for  him 
before  asking  help  for  himself.  Everybody  took  care  of 
his  own  horse,  hved  up  to  the  rules,  never  talked  back 
to  the  judges,  took  his  medicine  (so  called)  when  his 
horse  was  ordered  out  of  the  Contest,  helped  one  another 
where  permissible,  and  congratulated  the  winner  and, 
though  often  dead  tired,  everybody  was  always  cheerful. 
^  ou  don't  often  get  that  combination  of  men  and  horses 
together,  but  when  you  do  they  are  hard  to  beat. 

The  success  of  the  test  was  due  in  a  great  measure  to 
the  good  work  done  by  W.  R.  Brown  and  Major  George, 
assisted  by  Mr.  Berry.  The  judges  were  Major  Henry 
Leonard,  Major  C.  A.  Benton,  and  Harry  Worcester  Smith. 
Major  George  superintended  the  weighing,  feed,  and  ac- 
commodations, and  at  all  times  an  Army  veterinary  and 
farrier  were  in  attendance. 

The  rules  for  next  year's  Contest  are  not  yet  out,  but, 
it  is  understood  some  changes  will  be  made  so  as  to  secure 
more  entries  and  permit  of  more  horses  finishing.  If  a 
larger  per  cent  is  allowed  for  condition,  the  real  merit 
of  the  Contest  will  be  secured,  namely,  the  ascertaining 
of  what  strain  of  horse  stands  the  test  best  and  not  which 
horse,  which  was  the  case  last  year  and  this,  when  only 
one  horse  finished  in  perfect  condition. 


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A  Visit  to  Ghesney  Farm 

By  OBSERVER 

4  4  W  T  HAT  sort  of  a  place  is  it?"  one  asks  when  told 
Y  Y  that  at  Mr.  O.  W.  Lehmann's  Chesney  Farm 
as  many  as  4,000  people  have  attended  a  one- 
day  horse  show  and  plowing  match.  And  as  may  be 
judged  from  this  statement,  it  is  a  most  unusual  place, 
and  well  worth  visiting.  For  I  was  not  prepared  for  what 
I  saw  there,  any  more  than  you  would  be  were  you  to 
visit  this  wonderful  estate.    ■ 

Situated  in  Lake  County,  five  miles  from  the  Wisconsin 
state  line,  50  miles  out  of  Chicago,  Chesney  Farms  com- 
prise some  640  acres  of  choice  farm  land  in  this  garden 
spot  of  Illinois.  Here  Mr.  Lehmann  raises  his  own  feed, 
hay,  oats  and  corn,  there  being  about  6,000  bushels  of  oats, 
600  tons  of  hay  harvested  last  year,  and  approximately 
150  acres  in  corn. 

Chesney  Farms  have  long  been  famous  for  Belgian 
horses,  American  saddle  bred  horses,  hackneys  and  thor- 
oughbreds. Lately  a  kennel  of  airedales  has  added  to  the 
renown  of  Chesney  Farms — all  of  the  dogs  being  champion 
animals.  The  Chesney  Kennels  are  well  known  today 
in  the  dog  world  to  thousands  of  lovers  of  fine  dogs. 

At  present  the  buildings  at  Chesney  Farm  are  under- 
going complete  reorganization.  A  magnificent  riding 
school  is  completed,  housing  what  is  probably  the  largest 
private  ring  in  the  country.  This  ring,  more  than  200  feet 
long  and  70  feet  wide,  is  in  direct  connection  with  30  box 
stalls.  The  total  number  of  buildings  includes  four  stables, 
one  of  driving  horses,  one  of  saddle  horses,  one  thorough- 
breds and  jumpers  and  one  of  brood  mares.  All  told  there 
are  about  160  head  on  Chesney  Farms.  In  the  collection 
of  brood  mares  the  aim  of  Mr.  Lehmann  has  been  to  have 
desirable  conformation  combined  with  the  breeding  mated 
with  sires  of  correspondingly  good  conformation  and  breed- 
ing. The  object  of  course  being  to  obtain  the  breeding  of 
saddle  horses  for  the  show  ring.  This  not  only  applies  to 
saddle  horses  but  to  thoroughbreds  and  hackneys  as  well. 


"Garrard  Hunt,"  an   Intensely  Bred  Denmark- 
American  Saddle   Bred   Stallion,   Leading  Sire 
of    The    Chesney    Farm,    Lake    Villa,    III. 

Everything  bought  for  Chesney  Farms  is  purchased  with 
the  idea  of  successful  breeding  in  view. 

Chesney  Farms  is  ideally  located  and  magnificently 
equipped.  It  has  its  own  pumping  plant  and  maintains 
elaborate  blacksmith  shops.  It  breeds  most  of  the  horses 
shown  by  the  farm  in  the  prize  ring.  It  now  has  a  stud 
of  seven  stallions  headed  by  "Garrard  Hunt,"  an  intensely 
bred  Denmark. 

It  is  Mr.  Lehmann's  plan  to  have  a  local  horse  show  at 
Chesney  Farms  next  October  with  Chicago  entries;  no 
mean  ambition  for  a  Lake  County  farm,  we  should  say,  but 
those  who  know  Mr.  Lehmann  realize  he  will  get  away 
with  it.  This  year,  with  an  attendance  of  more  than 
4,000,  there  were  over  a  half  dozen  outside  entries.  Chesney 
Farms  comprise  the  largest  breeding  establishment  in  Lake 
County,  and  Lake  County,  be  it  known,  has  more  brood 
mares  than  any  state  in  the  Union.  That,  we  think,  is 
some  record.     What  do  you  think? 


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Some  Action  at  0.  W.  Lehmann's  Chesney  Farm 

Lake  Villa,  Illinois 


Drumfire  Taking  the 
Triple  Bars 


Three  Blue  Ribbon  Winning 

Jumpers 
Surefire,  Drumfire,  Fireaway 


Saddle  Class  Under  15:2 


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A  Visit  to  the  Forest  Preserves 


By  RANSOM  KENNICOTT 


THE  most  interesting  places  to  visit  are  the  Cook 
County  Forest  Preserves.  The  finest  way  to  visit 
the  Preserve  is  on  horseback.  Even  though  the 
horse  is  used  as  a  means  of  conveyance  only,  it  is  the 
best  means  of  conveyance  through  the  Preserves.  Rail- 
road trains,  street  cars  and  automobiles  may  take  one 
to  the  Preserves,  but  unless  one  hikes  the  horse  is  the 
only  means  of  transportation  through  the  Preserves. 

If  a  way  were  made  for  automobiles  to  the  choice  wild 
spots  in  the  Preserves  their  charm  would  be  marred. 
The  distances  are  too  great  for  most  men  and  women  to 
walk,  so  a  horse  is  the  only  solution.  If  we  wish  to  have 
more  than  one  outside  acquaintance  with  these  charming 
natural  parks,  we  must  make  that  acquaintance  on  foot 
or  on  horseback. 

Bridle  paths  through  the  Preserves  tend  to  add  to  its 
charm;  it  needs  nothing  artificial.  The  horse  and  his 
rider  prefer  the  natural  turf  to  cinders.  A  path  through 
the  forest  winding  among  the  trees,  uphill  and  down, 
crossing  ravines  and  fording  streams  in  shallow  places, 
narrow  where  it  is  necessary,  then  widening  out  through 
a  clearing  or  across  a  meadow  for  a  gallop — this  is  a 
delightful  bridle  path.  With  this  Forest  Preserve  bridle 
path  as  contemplated,  it  will  he  the  greatest  opportimity 
for  horseback  riding  to  be  foimd  anywhere  in  the  United 
States. 

What  more  charming  than  to  follow  the  winding  banks 
of  the  Des  Plaines  River  mile  after  mile  without  a  fence 
or  a  hindrance?  To  establish  these  bridle  paths  entails  a 
very  small  cost;  the  cutting  out  of  a  few  shrubs,  the 
lopping  off  a  few  limbs  and  the  thing  is  done. 

We  are  rapidly  buying  the  connecting  lands  between 


the  stretches  of  forest  already  owned,  and  as  soon  as  that 
is  done  the  bridle  paths  will  be  open  to  the  riders.  Fences 
are  disappearing  as  fast  as  we  come  into  possession  of 
the  property,  and  wire  fences  are  the  greatest  obstacle 
to  the  equestrian. 

The  Forest  Preserve  is  using  its  influence  to  have  a 
bridle  path  on  Peterson  Avenue,  being  constructed  one 
hvmdred  feet  wide,  from  the  heart  of  the  North  side 
riding  district  through  our  Preserve.  We  are  expecting 
to  open  an  avenue  from  the  Caldwell  Preserve  southwest 
to  the  Des  Plaines  River  Valley.  Along  this  way  also  we 
plan  a  bridle  path. 

We  hope  to  establish  stables  at  various  points  on  the 
Preserve  where  horses  may  be  boarded  at  reasonable 
rates,  and  where  they  may  be  rented  by  people  desiring 
to  ride.  Also,  if  our  present  plans  are  carried  out,  we 
will  have  burrows  for  the  children,  a  safe  and  delightful 
way  to  penetrate  through  the  innermost  recesses  of  our 
wilderness.  We  believe  that  the  horseback  riders  will 
not  only  find  great  joy  in  riding  these  trails,  but  will  add 
much  to  the  picturesque  charm  of  the  Preserves.  The 
canoe  on  the  waters,  log  cabin  in  the  woods,  and  the 
horseman  on  the  trails  were  the  first  step  from  the  wilder- 
ness and  seem  most  appropriate  in  our  natural  woods. 

A  few  years  ago  everyone  rode  horseback;  now  it  is  a 
luxury  enjoyed  by  a  few  and  chiefly  the  wealthy  class. 
We  hope  that  the  Forest  Preserves  will  be  the  means 
of  bringing  back,  if  not  universal  horseback  riding,  at 
least  that  it  will  become  a  popular  pleasure.  We  want 
nothing  on  the  Preserve  which  seems  unnatural,  but  in 
our  great  scheme  of  "Saving  the  Outdoors"  we  feel  that 
the  man  on  horseback  fits  in. 


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AT    WHAT    AGE    SHOULD    A    CHILD    BEGIN    TO 

RIDE  HORSEBACK? 

By  A  MEMBER 

THIS  question  often  asked,  is  one  that  is  not  easily 
answered,  inasmuch  as  it  depends  largely  upon  the 
physical  condition  of  the  child.  A  normal,  well- 
developed  child  who  has  courage  can  be  started  at  six  with 
impunity.  A  child  of  six  who  is  not  well-developed,  with 
a  tendency  to  be  nervous  or  diffident  should  be  dis- 
couraged, for  the  excitement  incidental  to  riding  is  detri- 
mental, and  nervousness  is  frequently  communicated  to 
the  mount,  causing  bad  manners  often  with  disastrous 
results. 

For  the  beginner  it  is  most  essential  that  proper  appoint- 
ments as  a  proper  mount  be  secured.  A  saddle  to  fit, 
the  English  Pigskin  Park  Type  saddle  that  is  so  generally 
used  both  in  this  country  and  England,  is  deemed  prefer- 
able. The  reins  not  too  large  for  the  hands  to  manage, 
the  first  stirrups  should  be  the  box  or  closed  type  with 
safety  releases  which  prevents  the  rider  from  being 
dragged  if  thrown,  supplanted  later  by  the  open  steel 
stirrup  when  a  good  seat  has  been  established.  The  Fitz 
William  or  Double  English  girth  afford  maximum  safety. 
For  precautionary  measures  a  small,  round,  leather  hand 
loop  should  be  placed  just  in  front  of  the  pummel  of  the 
saddle,  so  in  the  event  of  the  horse  or  pony  being  suddenly 
frightened  a  beginner  can  grasp,  which  often  prevents 
bad  falls.  A  light  whip  or  crop  is  essential;  the  use  of 
spurs  should  not  be  allowed. 

Quite  as  essential  as  the  time  when  a  child  should 
begin  to  ride  is  the  selection  of  the  proper  mount,  and 
often  times  a  parent  or  instructor  will  select  a  small 
pony  instead  of  one  that  is  larger  which  can  be  used 
by  the  same  rider  for  a  number  of  years  before  it  is 
outgrown,  and  then  be  handed  down  and  enjoyed  by  a 
younger  member  of  the  family. 


Tlie  satisfactory  size  pony  for  the  average  beginner  is 
one  ranging  in  height  from  eleven  to  thirteen  hands. 
An  animal  with  a  good  body,  short  in  back  with  sub- 
stance, intelligent,  having  good  manners,  one  who  is  not 
given  to  stumbling  and  preferably  a  pony  that  is  broke 
to  both  ride  and  drive,  for  during  winter  months  asking 
one  to  ride  often  imposes  hardships  where  the  same 
child  can  be  supplied  with  a  sleigh  and  not  only  enjoy, 
but  afford  pleasure  to  others,  by  partaking  of  a  winter's 
day  drive. 

After  the  mount  has  been  secured,  before  introducing 
tlie  beginner  to  the  saddle,  let  him,  with  the  leading-out 
bridle,  walk  the  pony  about  so  as  to  form  an  acquaintance 
before  the  saddle  is  placed  and  the  first  ride  taken. 

On  the  day  of  the  first  lesson  it  is  well  to  take  only 
a  short  ride  and  a  generous  part  of  it  should  be  taken 
a  walk  or  slow  pace,  after  which  the  beginner  should 
be  given  a  warm  bath  and  a  rub  with  either  arnica  or 
alcohol  to  prevent  lameness. 

After  a  few  lessons,  the  pupil  becoming  familiar  with 
the  saddle  and  acquainted  with  the  different  gaits,  the 
rides  can  be  made  longer  without  fear  of  fatigue  or  over- 
exercise.  The  park  gaits  should  be  observed  and  racing 
or  running  should  not  be  attempted. 

Children  who  start  in  horses  frequently  become  imi- 
tators and  what  they  see  adults  do,  attempt.  For  this 
reason  instructors  who  are  careful  about  their  form  in 
riding,  pace,  etc.,  convey,  intuitively,  the  same  practice 
to  the  pupil.  Few  things  are  more  refreshing  than  3 
horseback  ride  on  a  bright  day  and  the  bridle  paths 
forest  preserves,  etc.,  that  surround  Chicago  lend  induce- 
ment to  beginners  that  few  cities  can  afford.  With  the 
stock  farms  that  are  near  Chicago  it  is  not  a  hard  matter 
to  secure  a  mount  suitable  for  park  riding.  This  form  of 
exercise  cannot  be  too  heartily  endorsed. 


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Cedar  Crest  Farms 

Owner,  J.  K.  Bering 
Lake  Villa,  Illinois 

CEDAR  CREST  FARMS,  owned  by  J.  K. 
Bering,   are   located   on   the   banks   of 
Fox  Lake  near  Lake  Villa,  Illinois,  on 
the  Soo  Line  Railway,  about  fifty  miles  north- 
west of  Chicago. 

Commencing  in  a  very  modest  way  about 
twenty  years  ago.  Cedar  Crest  has  now  de- 
veloped into  an  institution  comprising  ap- 
proximately 400  acres,  fully  equipped  with 
modem  devices  and  operated  along  systematic 
lines  designed  to  produce  the  best  results  in 
the  breeding  of  Hackney  Ponies,  Saddle 
Horses,  Jersey  Cattle  and  Berkshire  Hogs. 


"Polly  Southworlh" 
Driven  by- 
Mrs.  Jackson  K.  Bering 

'Watchful"  Ridden  by 
Jackson  K.  Bering,  Jr. 


Photos  by  Haas 


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Royal  Cleopatra"  Driven  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Bering 


"Dink  Stover," 
Three-Gaited  Saddle  Horse 

Cedar  Crest  bred  cattle  and  hogs 
have  been  estabUshed  in  practically 
every  State  of  the  Union  and,  while 
the  horse  and  pony  section  is  but  a 
recent  addition,  if  likewise  has 
demonstrated  its  popularity.  The 
large  number  of  horses,  ponies,  cat- 
tle and  hogs  always  on  hand  and  the 
close  proximity  of  the  Farms  to  Chi- 
cago, making  them  readily  acces- 
sible either  by  train  or  automobiles, 
affords  an  inducement  to  members 
of  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Club  to 
visit  Cedar  Crest. 


Horse  Bams,  }.  K.  Bering 
Lake  Villa,  HI. 


PhotoB  by  Hau 


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Olympia  Fields  —  the  Equestrian's  Paradise 


THERE  is  a  treat  in  store  for  those  who  have  never 
visited  the  Olympia  Fields  Country  Club,  which  is 
located  only  an  hour's  ride  from  Chicago  by  motor 
or  train. 

Upon  arrival  one  is  immediately  impressed  with  the 
charm  of  its  long  vistas  of  smooth  turf,  interrupted  here 
and  there  with  a  pleasing  change  in  slope,  sweeping  off 
majestically  through  their  borders  of  tall,  overhanging 
trees  and  natural  undergrowth.  An  occasional  knoll, 
crowned  with  a  low-hanging  crab-apple  tree,  juts  into 
the  open  and  adds  to  the  feeling  of  great  distance.  Tall 
oaks  tower  imperiously  over  the  smaller  growth  that  fills 
so  densely  the  wooded  plots,  lending  variety  to  the  far-off 
sky-line,  while  green  of  every  shade  removes  all  possi- 
bility of  monotony.  In  odd  corners  and  in  unexpected 
hollows,  clumps  of  wild  flowers  add  their  cheery  note 
of  bright  color,  small  birds  dart  in  and  out  of  the  deep 
shade,  miniature  people  move  about  in  the  distance,  and 
one  stands  fascinated  by  the  sheer  beauty  of  the  picture. 

Winding  through  the  grounds  and  woods,  are  bridle 
paths  which  invite  an  early  morning  canter  on  horses 
which  are  kept  in  stables  on  the  grounds. 

Eventually  a  polo  field  will  be  laid  out  to  attract  the 
more  daring  riders  who  wish  to  display  their  skill  on  the 
field. 

An  Equestrian  Committee  is  now  working  on  plans  for 
the  further  development  of  these  sports  at  Olympia  which, 
with  the  surrounding  country,  is  destined  to  become  the 
most  popular  section  in  the  middle  West  for  the  horse- 
man. 

The  progress  that  has  been  made  thus  far,  is  attributed 
largely  to  William  E.  Dee,  Chairman  of  the  Equestrian 


Committee,  one  of  the  Charter  members,  who  has  devoted 
a  great  deal  of  time  and  thought  encouraging  this  feature 
at  Olympia  Fields. 

A  visit  to  the  grounds  in  the  early  Spring  will  be  suf- 
ficient to  convince  the  most  skeptical. 

The  Club's  magazine— the  OLYMPIAN— for  December, 
shows  many  beautiful  views  taken  at  Olympia.  A  copy 
will  be   sent  to  any  interested  Equestrian   upon  request. 


A  Bit  oj  the  Miles  of  Bridle  Paths  at  Olympia  Fields 


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R.  R.  Soo  Line  (50  Miles  from  Chicago) 


Telephone  117-J,  Lake  Villa 


LONGWOOD  FARM 


E.  J.  LEHMANN.  Owner 


The  Home  of 

RICHELIEU  KING 


At  service  to  a  limited 
number  of  select  mares 


For  further  fjarticulars  apJDly  to 

JaS.   D.   Buford,  Manager 
Lake  Villa  Illinois 


REG.  3042  A.  S:  HBA 


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R.  R.  Soo  Line  (50  Miles  from  Chicago) 


Telephone  117-J,  Lake  Villa 


LONGWOOD  FARM 


E.J.  LEHMANN,  Owner 


Audrey  Saddle  Pony 


Three  and  five  gaited  saddle 
horses  for    sale   at   all   times 


For  further  particulars  apply  to 

JaS.    D.    Buford,    Manag, 
Lake  Villa  Illinois 


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Horseback  Riding  in  the  City  of  Chicago 

Reprinted  from  Circular  Issued  by  the  Horse  Association  of  America 


FROM  Central  Park  in  New  York  to  the  Golden  Gate 
in  San  Francisco, — they  are  riding.  All  talk  of  a 
motorized  age  notwithstanding,  the  saddle  horse  has 
come  into  more  general  use  and  popular  favor  during  the 
last  four  or  five  years,  with  especial  acceleration  in  the 
year  just  past,  than  has  been  true  for  a  score  of  years  pre- 
ceding. 

And  why?  Because  down  underneath  its  crusty  surface, 
the  world  always  has  loved,  and  still  loves,  the  horse.  He 
appeals  to  a  certain  romantic  strain  of  the  imagination 
and  calls  out  great  resources  from  the  rider.  From  the 
viewpoint  of  physical  exercise,  horseback  riding  provides 
not  only  muscular  tone  but  internal  massage  and  stimula- 
tion of  the  vital  organs.  It  is  entirely  reasonable  to 
attribute  much  of  its  returning  popularity  to  the  common 
use  of  passenger  automobiles,  which  has  added  greatly  to 
the  habits  of  sedentary  living  in  cities. 

Whatever  the  stimulus  in  back  of  the  revival,  the  sport 
is  a  worthy  one  and  adaptable  to  many  classes  of  riders. 
As  a  part  of  the  education  of  children,  it  stresses  the 
wholesome  qualities  of  consideration,  instant  obedience, 
decision  and  fearlessness.  The  lessons  of  horsemanship 
include  many  more  principles  than  simply  how  to  keep 
balanced  on  a  horse. 

With  the  youth  of  the  country  full  of  exuberance,  for 
whom  wholesome  outlet  of  this  abundant  vitality  must 
be  provided,  it  is  a  sport  that  satisfies.  The  open  road 
and  a  horse  that  can  go, — yet  tempered  with  the  necessity 
for  utmost  consideration, — develop  certain  traits  of  the 
gentleman,  along  with  supple  muscles.  The  young  eques- 
trienne turns  of  herself  against  the  atrocious  "debutante 


slouch"  and  can  substitute  genuine  glow  of  health  for  the 
camouflage  of  rouge. 

And  yet  the  one  who  benefits  most  is  the  physically 
inactive  business  or  professional  man  or  woman,  whose 
peak  of  mentality  is  constantly  dulled  by  the  handicap 
of  functional  sluggishness.  As  mentioned  previously,  rid- 
ing gives  activity,  not  only  to  the  muscles,  but  to  all 
internal  organs,  and  is  therefore  an  ideal  counteractant  to 
the  evils  of  sedentary  existence. 

At  a  banquet  held  recently  in  Kansas  City,  the  toast- 
master  said,  "One  of  my  treasured  memories  is  to  recall 
my  grandfather,  erect  and  alert,  riding  a  spirited  horse 
in  his  ninety-ninth  year,  and  he  justly  attributed  his  vigor 
at  great  age  to  his  daily  horseback  rides,  continued  the 
year  around." 

Equestrianism  is  a  democratic  sport,  for  it  is  within  the 
reach  of  students  and  young  business  men  and  women, 
for  whom  it  is  particularly  beneficial.  There  is  no  better 
way  to  enjoy  the  parks  than  to  go  riding  in  them.  Those 
who  want  to  eventually  own  their  own  horses  can  do  so, 
but  for  beginners,  the  cost  of  a  horse  per  hour  is  no  more 
than  that  of  a  theatre  ticket,  and  if  equipment  is  not 
possessed,  it,  too,  can  be  rented  at  a  small  additional 
charge. 

On  the  other  hand,  at  summer  or  winter  resorts,  or  on 
week  end  visits  to  country  homes,  riding  parties  are  one 
of  the  most  popular  diversions,  and  the  young  man  or 
woman  who  is  not  proficient  in  the  saddle  on  a  spirited 
horse,  suff"er8  by  comparison,  for  it  is  rightly  held  that 
dancing,  swimming,  skating  and  horseback  riding  are 
social  accomplishments  which  are  integral  parts  of  a  well 
rounded  education. 


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The  pavements  of  city  streets  restrict  riding  largely 
to  the  bridle  paths  of  the  parks  for  those  in  the  main 
residence  districts,  though  in  the  outlying  sections,  short 
connections  to  the  country  roads  afford  unlimited  mile- 
age. Naturally  the  riding  academies  of  the  city  have 
grouped  themselves  in  the  vicinity  of  park  bridle  paths, — 
this  is  very  evident  on  the  Chicago  maps  shown  later. 
The  distance  from  the  parks  to  the  stable  is  taken  at  a 
slow  gait,  and  the  rule  to  "keep  to  the  right,"  applies 
to  both  horses  and  automobiles.  The  mounts  in  use  by 
academies  are  usually  accustomed  to  general  street  traffic, 
but  many  of  the  privately  owned  horses  are  high-strung, 
sensitive  animals  requiring  particular  consideration  both 
on  the  part  of  the  rider  and  on  the  part  of  automobile 
drivers. 

Because  of  these  conditions,  park  boards  have  gener- 
ously made  way  for  equestrians  by  cinder  and  dirt  paths 
which  are  the  salvation  of  the  city  rider.     Right  in  the 


very  heart  of  New  York  City,  Central  Park  with  six 
miles  of  bridle  paths,  affords  riding  space  for  about  two 
thousand  equestrians  daily.  A  few  blocks  to  the  west. 
Riverside  Park  contains  three  and  a  half  miles  of  pathway 
overlooking  the  Hudson;  Brooklyn  riders  have  their  Pros- 
pect Park;  the  Bronx  district  has  both  Van  Cortlandt  and 
Pelham  Bay  Parks  in  which  to  ride. 

Fairmount  Park  in  Philadelphia,  Potomac  Park  with 
thirty  miles  of  suitable  pathway  in  the  District  of  Co- 
lumbia, Druid  HiU  Park  in  Baltimore, — in  fact,  each  city 
of  size  has  its  army  of  riders  in  city  parks  and  outlying 
country  roads.  Minneapolis,  particularly,  has  shown  a 
marked  revival  of  interest  through  the  renewed  activities 
of  the  Saddle  and  Bridle  Club.  Kansas  City  has  a  gener- 
ous mileage  built  in  through  the  Country  Club  District 
connecting  with  the  Ward  Parkway,  while  in  the  West, 
in  San  Francisco  and  the  coast  resorts,  equestrianism  is 

(Continued  on  Page   58) 


MAP  OF  LINCOLN  PARK  AND  SURROUNDING  DISTRICT 


DIRECTORY  FOR  LINCOLN  PARK  DISTRICT 
Bridle  path  indicated  by  heavy  black  line  ^^^^ 

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Lascot    Ridine    School,    75    E.    Walton    Place, 
Superior  7160 

2.  First  Cavalry  Riding  Academy,   1330  N.  Clark 
St.,  Superior  335 

3.  Parkway  Riding  Academy,  2153   N.   Clark  St., 
Diversey  6M0 

4.  Pemberton  Sales  Stables  (No  horses  for  hire) 

5.  North   Shore   Riding  Academy,  2822  N.   Clark 
St.,  Lakevicw  804O 


Lincoln    Riding   Academy.   3008   N.    Clark    St.. 
Wellington  4060 

7.  Edgewater  Riding  Academy,  U28  Foster  Ave., 
Edgewater  1646 

8.  Catalpa    Riding    Club    (private),    1124    Catalpa 
St.    (No  horses  for  hire) 

9.  Birchwood    Country    Club,    Devon    Ave.     (No 
horses  for  hire) 

10.   North  Shore  Polo  Club,  Lincoln  and  Peterson 
Ave. 


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Woodin  Farms 

Wilson,  Illinois 

MR.  WOODIN'S  farm  comprises  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
and  is  known  as  Woodin  Farms  and  is  about  five  miles  north 
of  Lake  Forest  on  Telegraph  Road.  Until  recently  he  has 
maintained  his  country  place  for  the  training  of  hunters  for  show 
purposes.  In  the  fall  he  sold  his  entire  stable  to  L.  K.  Liggett  in  the 
East,  but  at  the  present  time  has  a  man  in  Virginia  looking  for  some 
"green"  hunters  and  will  probably  have  another  stable  lined  up,  at 
least,  in  time  for  the  South  Shore  Country  Club  Horse  Show.  In  the 
spring,  early  June,  his  family  moves  out  there  and  stays  until  the  mid- 
dle of  September.  His  daughters,  Jane,  aged  twelve,  and  Martha, 
seven,  are  enthusiastic  equestriennes  also.  Jane  showed  her  pony, 
"Chestnut  Girl,"  at  South  Shore  in  June.  Martha  has  not  tried  the 
hurdles  yet,  but  gets  a  good  deal  of  pleasure  and  much  excitement 
(since  he  discovered  she  was  not  stationary)  out  of  a  diminutive  Shet- 
land called  "Glen  E."  The  buildings  on  the  place  are  not  especially 
elaborate — the  house  is  built  on  Colonial  lines  and  all  the  buildings 
are  white  with  green  trimmings. 


Jane  Woodin  on  Her  Pony,  "Chestnut  Girl" 


Birdseye  View  of  Jumping  Course 


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He  has  "the  large  house,"  the  help's 
cottage,  garage,  farmer's  cottage,  farm 
barn,  trainer's  house,  and  an  espe- 
cially fine  barn  for  training  the 
hunters  arranged  so  that  training 
need  not  be  discontinued  on  account 
of  weather.  This  barn  is  indeed 
worthy  of  comment  and  the  horses 
are  not  only  comfortable  but  lux- 
uriously situated.  It  is  known  as  the 
training  barn. 


Neighbors  and  Friends  at  Woodin  Farms 


Group  of  It'oodin  Farms  Hunters  and  Jumpers 


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by  far  the  leading  outdoor  pastime.  Intermediate  cities 
reflect  a  riding  interest  which  is  apparently  nationwide. 

Chicago  has  not  failed  to  make  way  for  her  riding  en- 
thusiasts. It  is  estimated  that  there  are  now  approxi- 
mately five  thousand  equestrians  in  the  city,  with  the 
number  increasing  daily.  Recognizing  that  the  sport  car- 
ries real  merit  in  its  practice,  the  various  park  boards 
have  responded  with  bridle  paths  in  the  main  parks  on 
the  North  and  South  sides  of  the  city.  The  western  dis- 
trict has  only  the  Forest  Preserve,  but  this  is  in  fairly 
near  proximity.  It  is  believed,  however,  that  in  the  future 
development  of  the  sport  as  a  general  recreation,  the  West 
Side  parks  will  also  give  room  for  the  equestrians  to 
spread  out  a  bit. 

The  North  Side  has  two  riding  centers,  the  more  popu- 
lous being  in  the  region  of  Lincoln  Park,  where  an  excel- 
lent bridle  path  winds  through  the  park  and  along  the 
lake  front.  Beginning  at  the  Municipal  Pier,  the  path 
follows  close  to  the  shore  of  Lake  Michigan  for  a  distance 
of  four  and  a  half  miles  through  the  park.  The  scenery 
is  delightful  and  the  park  kept  in  splendid  condition. 
The  map  on  the  next  page  shows  the  course  of  the  Lincoln 
Park  Bridle  Path  and  the  location  of  contributing  stables. 

Riders  in  the  Edgewater  district,  being  separated  from 
the  Lincoln  Park  paths  by  two  miles  of  city  pavement, 
strike  off  to  the  west  and  northwest  on  country  roads  of 
dirt  to  the  Forest  Preserve.  Here  the  riding  is  especially 
enjoyable,  as  there  is  no  more  perfect  way  to  explore 
among  trees  and  along  trails,  than  on  horseback. 

The  Chicago  Plan  Commission  is  making  earnest  efforts 
to  provide  for  a  bridle  path  in  the  widening  of  Peterson 
Avenue,  which  will  afford  a  direct  outlet  to  the  Forest 
Preserve  areas  on  the  west.  The  Lincoln  Park  Commis- 
sioners are  building  new  land  into  the  lake  for  an  exten- 
sion of  Lincoln   Park  through  which   a  bridle   path   has 


been  requested  by  the  equestrian  associations  in  Chicago, 
notably  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Club  and  the  American 
Remount  Association  in  united  effort  with  the  Horse  As- 
sociation of  America. 

Riders  on  the  North  Side  have  pointed  out  that  there 
is  now  an  opportimity  to  carry  the  bridle  paths  across  the 
bridge  at  the  north  end  of  the  yacht  harbor,  following 
east  and  south  along  the  harbor's  edge,  thence  north  along 
the  outer  rim  on  the  new  made  land  and  next  to  the 
lake,  as  fast  as  the  new  made  land  is  completed,  with 
occasional  cross  paths  to  the  western  side  of  the  park, 
where  the  bridle  path  is  now  established.  Such  develop- 
ment would  give  mileage  and  beauty  to  the  Lincoln  Park 
district  excelled  by  no  other  park  in  America. 

Washington  and  Jackson  Parks  furnish  excellent  riding 
faciUties  for  the  South  Side.  The  two  parks  are  con- 
nected by  a  mile  of  cinder  pathway  down  the  Midway 
Plaisance,  and  this  is  a  most  desirable  feature  toward 
making  park  riding  unrestricted  and  worth  while. 

The  pathway  in  Washington  Park  begins  at  Fifty-first 
Street  and  circles  the  north  half  of  the  park  called  the 
"meadow," — an  open,  grassy  expanse,  and  here  riding  is 
especially  good  because  of  the  few  intercepting  roadways 
and  sidewalks.  A  branch  from  this  park  leads  off  through 
the  south  half  of  the  park,  running  alongside  the  lagoon, 
over  a  rustic  bridge  or  through  a  shallow  fording  spot, 
on  south,  but  turning  east  just  short  of  Sixtieth  Street, 
where  the  path  leads  out  onto  the  Midway. 

One  mile  along  the  cinder  path  of  the  Midway  and  the 
path  enters  Jackson  Park.  A  turn  to  the  right  and  the 
route  runs  parallel  with  the  West  Drive  to  the  extreme 
south  end  of  the  park,  thence  a  turn  to  the  left  straight 
across  the  entire  width  of  the  park  to  Lake  Shore  Drive, 
or,  turning  to  the  North  and  going  over  the  bridge  be- 
tween the  yacht  harbor  and  the  lagoon,  follows  the  cinder 

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MAP  OF  JACKSOI^  PARK  AND  SURROUNDING  DISTRICTS 

Heavy  black  line  indicating  the  Bridle  Path.    Great  credit  i: 
South  Park  Commissioners  for  making  these  paths  possibl 
use  of  equestri 


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(Continued  from  Page  58) 

pathway  running  North  and  South  between  the  golf  hnks 
and  lake  front.  This  lake  shore  drive  is  one  of  the 
finest  in  the  city.  The  East  path  is  connected  with  the 
West  by  a  zig-zag  route  crossing  the  Music  Court  Bridge, 
thence  along  the  lagoon  to  the  Columbia  Bridge,  and  on 
west  to  the  section  of  pathway  traversing  the  entire  west 
side  of  Jackson  Park. 

The  total  mileage  on  the  South  Side  for  the  two  parks 
and  the  Midway  is  approximately  eight  miles.  The  map 
following  page  9  shows  the  route  except  the  connecting 
link  down  the  Midway,  and  the  directory  indicates  where 
horses  may  be  obtained.  Riders  on  the  South  Side  can 
follow  picked  roads  to  the  country,  getting  around  into 
Indiana  or  over  west  to  the  Forest  Preserve. 

The  Country  Clubs  form  headquarters  for  riding  on  the 
extreme  ends  of  the  city,  the  suburbs  and  newer  residence 
districts  having  access  to  dirt  roads.  There  the  riding  is 
especially  delightful,  and  the  mileage  is  only  limited  by 
the  rider's  taste  for  exploration.  Community  riding  clubs 
are  also  the  outgrowth  of  equestrian  enthusiasm,  and  are 
not  so  complicated  in  operation  but  that  their  plan  is 
feasible  for  any  suburban  district.  An  illustration  of  what 
can  be  done  in  this  regard  is  shown  by  the  Catalpa  Riding 
Club,  1124  Catalpa  Street. 

There  are  sixteen  members,  all  of  whom  are  owners 
of  saddle  horses.  The  fact  that  there  were  no  facilities 
satisfactory  to  them  for  the  care  and  nearby  stabling  of 
their  mounts,  drew  them  into  a  business  arrangement 
which  took  the  form  of  a  riding  club  with  stables  large 
enough  to  accommodate  the  horses  of  its  members. 

The  club  is  not  run  for  profit  and  frequent  adjustments 
are  made  in  the  rates  charged  so  as  to  just  keep  even. 
The  following  are  the  main  items  of  income  and  expense: 


SOURCES  OF  INCOME: 

Membership  fee  on  admittance  to  Club $  25.00 

Rental  of  8  box  stalls  to  members  at  $40  each, 

per   month 320.00 

Rental   of  8   single   stalls   to  members   at   $35 

each,  per  month 280.00 

MAIN  ITEMS  OF  EXPENSE    (Monthly): 

Rent  of  building 75.00 

Stable   man 130.00 

Assistant   stable   man 120.00 

Cost  of  feed,  16  horses,  approximately 250.00 

Miscellaneous   expense 25.00 

Such  a  club,  besides  having  common  community  inter- 
ests, does  not  lack  for  camaraderie,  for  there  is  always  a 
kinship  in  the  use  and  appreciation  of  good  horses.  But 
the  point  is,  there  are  many  districts  like  unto  this  one, 
with  a  coterie  of  men  interested  in  horses  who  could  and 
would  be  enjoying  the  benefits  of  riding  if  they  saw  a 
practical  way  to  have  their  own  horses  and  keep  them 
in  the  neighborhood.  What  has  been  done  can  be  done 
again,  and  this  club  does  not  by  any  means  claim  to  be 
the  first.  Numerous  small  groups  throughout  the  city 
have  similar  arrangements  for  the  care  of  their  horses,  and 
many  men  have  their  own  stables. 

The  creation  of  a  bridle  path  from  Washington  Park 
west  to  the  city  limits  will  increase  greatly  the  number 
of  riders  in  the  south  parks,  for  remount  stations  and 
club  stables  will  spring  up  along  such  a  connecting  link. 
Business  men  of  the  South  Side  can  stop  off  while  on 
their  way  home  for  an  hour's  ride  through  the  parks,  or 
in  the  country  west  of  the  city.  Those  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  parks  who  ride  therein  on  week  days,  will  take 
advantage  of  Saturday  afternoons  and  Sundays  for  longer 
trips  in  the  open  country  and  through  the  Forest  Pre- 
serves. 


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The  fiual  development  of  the  connecting  link  between 
the  Forest  Preserve  and  Lincoln  Park  will  permit  the 
riders  of  Lincoln  Park  to  reach  the  open  country  to  the 
northwest  of  the  city  and  the  Forest  Preserve,  and  will 
also  afford  opportunity  for  the  riders  of  the  North  Shore 
Polo  Club,  Onwentsia  Polo  Club,  Edgewater  Riding 
Academy,  Catalpa  Riding  Club  and  others,  to  ride  down 
into  Lincoln  Park  without  crossing  through  city  traffic. 

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DIRECTORY    FOR   JACKSON    AND    WASHINGTON    PARKS. 

1.  Chicago   Riding    School,   4724   Cottage    Grove   Ave.,    Kenwood   2033 

2.  Mortimer's  Riding  Academy,  Cottage  Grove  Ave.  and  54th,  Hyde  Park  2070 

3.  Julius  Jensen,  4540   Champlain  Ave.,    Kenwood  2303 

4.  Midway    Riding   Academy.   6037    Drexel   Ave.,    Midway   9571 

5.  Marshall  Miles    (Boarding   Stable),   Lake   Park  at  55th 

6.  South  Shore  Country  Club,   Stables  for  members  only 

7.  J.  J.  O'Brien  &  Son,  4167  Emerald  Ave.,  Yards  565 


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Polo  Farm,  Wheaton,  III. 
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Radiant  King 

Polo  Farm  is  located  26  miles  from 
Chicago,  near  Wheaton,  III.,  on 
Roosevelt   Road. 

Wm.    ].    Kolb,    Superintendent. 

The  Home  of  Kentucky 
Chief,  Radiant  King,  Andy 
Cunii>. 


Andy 
Gumi> 


Polo  Farm— Wheaton,  III.     William  }.  Sutherland,  Owner 


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The  New  Home  of 
The  Chicago  Yacht  Chib    jl 


By  Commodore 
SHELDON  CLARK 


WHAT  will  be  the  finest  and  best  located  yacht  club 
in  America,  if  not  the  world,  will  be  erected  on 
three  acres  of  land  comprising  the  North  point 
at  the  entrance  to  Belmont  Harbor  in  Lincoln  Park.  The 
thirty-five  year  lease  was  negotiated  during  the  last  year 
with  the  Lincoln  Park  board,  and  the  Chicago  Yacht  Club 
already  has  tentative  plans  for  the  construction  of  a  club- 
house which  will  be  able  to  accommodate  several  thousand 
members.  There  is  no  finer  location  in  the  country,  as 
the  club  will  be  easily  accessible  to  the  downtown  sec- 
tions, as  well  as  far  enough  away  from  the  loop  to  escape 
the  smoke  and  noise.  The  site  is  large  enough  for  the 
installation  of  tennis  courts  and  to  permit  of  considerable 
ground  decoration. 

Belmont  Harbor  is  now  the  best  yachting  location  in 
Chicago.  In  fact  practically  all  of  the  boats  that  used  to 
moor  in  Grant  Park  basin  have  removed  to  the  new 
harbor  where  there  is  plenty  of  room  and  where  the  craft 
escape  the  smoke  nuisance. 


The  plans  as  far  as  they  have  been  projected  call  for 
a  clubhouse  of  brick  in  keeping  with  the  architecture  in 
harmony  with  the  park  surroundings.  There  will  be  an 
entrance  both  on  Lake  Michigan  and  on  the  harbor.  The 
club  will  be  open  the  year  round  and  will  be  large  enough 
to  take  care  of  a  thousand  diners  at  one  sitting. 

Besides  the  yachting,  which  will  always  be  the  main 
feature  of  the  organization's  activities,  there  will  be  a 
diversity  of  amusements.  It  is  likely  that  some  time  soon 
there  will  be  a  big  public  polo  field  near  the  club  which 
will  provide  some  of  the  best  polo  games  in  the  middle 
west.  With  tennis,  billiards,  bowling,  dancing  and  other 
sports,  the  club  will  have  all  the  amusements  of  a  town 
and  country  and  yacht  club  combined. 

Of  especial  interest  to  equestrians  will  be  accommoda- 
tions for  the  members  of  the  club  who  are  interested 
in  the  saddle  game.  A  bridle  path  will  lead  from  the 
park  paths  up  to  the  club. 


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The  oflScers  of  the  club  for  1921  are:  Commodore,  Shel- 
don Clark;  Vice  Commodore,  George  O.  Clinch;  Rear 
Commodore,  Edward  M.  Railton;  Secretary,  Harold  Brad- 
ley; Treasurer,  R.  E.  Jones;  Directors:  Laurance  H.  Ar- 
mour, James  O.  Heyworth,  Dr.  W.  L.  Baum,  Albert  Y. 
Gowen,  Ogden  T.  McClurg,  Charles  D.  Frey,  L.  J.  Lambin 
and  E.  C.  Webster. 

The  agreement  with  the  Lincoln  Park  board  calls  for 
beginning  of  construction  within  two  years,  but  the  yacht 
club,  with  a  large  number  of  new  members  coming  in, 
probably  will  be  in  shape  to  start  work  during  the  coming 
Fall.  The  club  is  in  excellent  financial  condition  and 
the  members  are  eager  to  get  the  project  started  as  soon 
as  possible. 

Following  is  a  description  of  the  tentative  plans  sub- 
mitted by  Architect  A.  N.  Rebori: 

Main  building  180'  long,  contains  a  club  room  40'x80', 
promenade  116'  long  and  a  two-story  high  octagonal  din- 
ing room  with  extension  porches  and  dining  alcoves  look- 
ing out  on  the  water,  with  south,  west  and  east  views. 

A  wide  porch  on  the  lake  side  is  carried  full  length  of 
building.    From  this  porch  members  can  view  the  races. 

A  wing  extending  into  the  water  100'  toward  yacht 
harbor  and  moorings  contains  a  sail  locker  room  on  the 
lower  level,  a  gangway  and  committee  room  on  the  upper 
level  or  deck. 

Bowling  alleys,  showers  and  locker  rooms  with  a  tunnel 
to  the  lake  are  placed  on  the  lower  level  beneath  the  main 
building. 

A  large  log  room,  where  records  of  the  world's  sailing 
events  are  placed,  together  with  trophies  belonging  to  the 
Club,  is  a  feature  in  the  arrangement  of  rooms  below. 

Above  the  main  club  room  an  unobstructed  dancing 
deck  for  open  air  dancing  is  provided,  100'x40'. 


Above  dance  deck,  in  the  tower,  is  the  observation  deck, 
where  telescopes  and  signals  will  be  arranged  in  the  latest 
scientific  nautical  manner.  A  large  room  is  provided  in 
this  lookout  tower  for  the  Yachting  Committee,  making 
it  possible  to  direct  the  many  regattas  and  other  events, 
international  in  their  scope,  planned  for  the  coming 
season. 

The  general  design  of  the  building  is  along  lines  con- 
sistent with  the  latest  marine  architecture  expressed  in 
structural  building  terms.  In  general  appearance  tlie 
building  will  be  low  and  expansive,  with  broad  decks, 
promenades  and  large  unobstructed  glass  areas  affording 
the  naaximum  of  air,  sunshine  and  view. 

From  the  main  club  room,  with  its  heavy  beamed  ceil- 
ing, and  ribbed  construction  of  an  ocean  liner  type,  we 
pass  into  the  spacious  dining  room  with  its  extended  view 
on  all  sides. 

In  the  centre  of  the  dining  room  there  is  a  huge  fire- 
place that  will  bring  cheer  to  the  sailorman's  heart.  It 
has  four  openings,  one  on  eacli  point  of  the  compass, 
permitting  of  wide  gatherings  where  many  a  yachting  story 
may  be  spun. 

A  wide  and  graceful  stairs  very  much  like  the  broad 
companionway  of  a  huge  ship,  leads  to  the  dance  deck 
above  and  winds  its  way  down  to  the  locker  rooms,  log 
room  and  boat  landing. 

The  kitchen  and  service  portion  affords  facilities  for 
serving  1,000  guests  at  a  single  sitting.  In  view  of  the 
great  yachting  events  planned,  this  kitchen  will  not  only 
encourage,  but  will  attract,  sportsmen  from  all  over  the 
world. 

An  attempt  has  been  made  to  take  care  of  yachting 
in  all  its  branches,  and  very  few  of  the  approved  and 
up-to-date  requirements  have  been  overlooked  in  the  lay- 
out. 


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Mavis  of  Kildaire,  Glittering  Glory, 
Chief  O'  the  Clan 


Driving  Lord  Brilliant  in  Gig  Class 
at  Newport 


Glittering  Glory 


View  of  Home  at  Ballantrae  Farms 


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ORLAND,  ILLINOIS 
HARRY  NEWMAN,  OWNER  FRANK  E.  PALMER,  MANAGER 

"High  grade  saddle  horses  released  for  sale  at  various  intervals. ' ' 

HOME  OF 
Saddle  Horses  Harness  Horses 

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CHIEF  O'  THE  CLAN  ATHLONE  MEG 

BILLY  DANIELS  KILRUSH  COLLEEN 

BLACK  REX  LORD  BRILLIANT 

LADDY  ZAMBRO  CLAY 

TOMMY  BUD  RADER 

Participated  in  the  following  1920  Shows: 

Springfield,  Mass.  Newport,  R.  I. 

Bryn  Mawr,  Penn.  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Dairy  Show,  Chicago  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Devon,  Penn.  Denver,  Colo. 

South  Shore  Country  Club,  Chicago 
Madison  Square  Gardens,  New  York 
International     Horse    Show,     Chicago 


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Owner,  IT  m.  E.  Dee 


Dinarth  Mermaid 
Was  the  unfortunate  victim  of  a 
fall  at  The  International  Horse  Show. 
1920,  and  fatally  injured.  This  acci- 
dent was  unusual  in  the  history  of  the 
Show  Ring  in  that  she  had  won  the 
Blue  Ribbon  in  her  class  just  a  few 
minutes  previous. 


Blue    ribbon    winners    South    Shore, 
Dairy   Show   and   International. 

Owner,  Wm.  E.  Dee. 

Farm,  Newport,  Ind., 
Hackneys,  If  elsit  and  Shetland  Ponies. 


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Horse   Association   of   America  Promotes  Equestrian 


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THE  first  and  only  great  national  organization 
to  aid  and  encourage  the  breeding,  raising 
and  use  of  good  horses  and  mules,  has  come 
into  existence  mider  the  name  and  style  of  the 
HORSE  ASSOCIATION  OF  AMERICA.  In  it  are 
united  the  various  business  interests  related  to 
horse  production  and  use,  which,  through  this 
body,  combine  their  support  and  strength  with 
the  men  actually  engaged  in  the  breeding  and  use 
of  horses  and  mules. 

Allied  with  it  also  are  all  of  the  great  record 
associations  which  have  to  do  with  the  encourage- 
ment of  the  individual  breeds,  and  such  other 
organizations  directly  interested — as  the  Chicago 
Equestrian  Club  and  the  American  Remount  Asso- 
ciation. However,  though  the  activities  of  the 
Horse  Association  "cover  the  earth,"  brief  mention 
in  this  article  will  be  made  only  of  such  efforts 
as  pertain  to  equestrian,  sports  and  the  saddle 
horse  breeds  contributing  thereto. 

The  Horse  Association  of  America  takes  the 
position  that  horseback  riding  is  the  oldest,  most 
widely  known  and  most  healthful  of  all  outdoor 
sports,  available  alike  to  young  and  old;  that  it 
deserves  to  become  the  most  popular  regular 
recreation  in  the  United  States  and  other  coun- 
tries; that  in  order  to  insure  its  spread  and  growth, 
permanent  facilities  therefor  must  be  made  avail- 
able; and  that  demand  for  saddle  horses  must  be 
created  before  farmers  and  breeders  can  be  in- 
duced to  expend  time  and  intelligent  attention  to 
their  production,  to  an  adequate  degree. 


The  Horse  Association  of  America  has  made  sur- 
veys of  bridle  paths  and  general  facilities  now  ac- 
cessible in  our  leading  cities,  and  has  constantly 
sought  to  bring  them  into  prominence  through 
publicity  channels  open  to  the  Association.  It  is 
confidently  believed  that  within  five  years'  time, 
the  practical,  definite  work  of  the  Horse  Associa- 
tion of  America  will  bring  into  being  a  civilian 
army  at  least  two  hundred  thousand  strong.  These 
riders  will  not  only  gain  in  personal  health  and 
well-being,  but  will  create  a  demand  for  good 
mounts  which  will  encourage  intelligent  effort  in 
breeding  the  various  strains. 

Of  the  fifteen  pure  breeds  of  horses  developed 
by  the  patient  work  and  untiring  efforts  of  horse- 
men, six  provide  good  saddle  horses  and  two  fur- 
nish ponies  suitable  for  children. 

The  Arab,  of  which  studs  are  still  maintained  in 
the  Orient  and  in  France,  England  and  America,  is 
the  oldest  breed  of  horses  known.  Cradled  on  the 
desert  sands  of  Arabia  long  before  the  coming  of 
Christ,  it  has  been,  from  earliest  times,  a  saddle 
horse  on  whose  speed  and  endurance  the  life  of  the 
rider  often  depended.  Because  of  excellence  in 
qualities  named,  the  Arabian  blood  was  freely 
used  in  improving  the  saddle  stocks  of  France  and 
England. 

The  Thoroughbred,  the  technical  name  for  the 
breed  of  race  horses,  resulted  from  a  fusion  of  the 
Arab,  Turk,  Barb  and  the  native  running  horses 
found  in  England.  The  Turk  and  Barb  breeds 
were  much  like  the  Arab,  developed  for  the  same 


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Sports   and   the   Breeding   of  Saddle   Horses 


purpose,  but  they  are  considered  to  have  been  of 
minor  importance  in  the  creation  of  the  Thorough- 
bred, and  this  great  breed  has  been  developed 
mainly  by  the  cross  of  the  Arab  blood  on  the  early 
English  running  stocks,  plus  rigorous  selection  of 
the  best  by  test.  The  race  course  furnished  the 
measure  of  merit.  Speed,  endurance,  fiery  tem- 
perament and  sheer  gameness  developed  by  more 
than  three  centuries  of  race  track  selection,  has 
made  the  Thoroughbred  most  widely  known  and 
generally  used  of  all  breeds  in  the  development  of 
saddle  and  cavalry  horses. 

The  Thoroughbred  has  also  furnished  the  foun- 
dation for  two  distinct  breeds  created  here  in 
America;  the  Standardbred  and  the  American 
Saddle  horse.  The  latter  resulted  from  a  blend  of 
several  strains  with  the  Thoroughbred,  plus  con- 
tinual selection  for  saddle  purposes.  It  has  devel- 
oped into  a  type  somewhat  finer  in  symmetry  and 
finish,  with  more  sloping  shoulders  and  pasterns 
than  the  Thoroughbred,  and  with  the  added  dis- 
tinction of  having  five  gaits  instead  of  three. 

The  Standardbred,  like  the  American  Saddle 
horse,  has  its  origin  in  the  Thoroughbred  breed 
primarily,  but  is  fused  with  other  strains  as  well, — 
including  some  Hackney  blood.  It  has,  however, 
been  developed  into  a  distinct  type  characterized 
by  extreme  speed  at  trotting  gait.  Many  horses  of 
this  breed  are  not  the  right  type  to  make  satisfac- 
tory saddle  horses,  but  others  of  the  breed,  par- 
ticularly those  of  the  Wilkes  strain,  are  sufficiently 
short  backed,  strongly  coupled,  deep  middled  and 


heavily  muscled  to  make  good  mounts  and  good 
sires  of  saddle  horses. 

The  Hackney  is  inclined  to  possess  too  much 
action  for  siring  saddle  horses,  but  an  infusion  of 
this  blood  to  the  extent  of  one-fourth  or  one-half 
often  benefits  certain  types  by  giving  shorter, 
stronger  backs,  heavier  loins  and  greater  muscling 
through  the  hind  quarters. 

The  Morgan  is  a  stock  famed  in  early  New  Eng- 
land days  for  considerable  speed  and  great  endur- 
ance,— of  late  yearsi  effort  has  been  directed  to- 
ward types  for  saddle  use.  It  is  too  early  to  pi'edict 
the  outcome,  although  horses  of  this  strain  have 
acquitted  themselves  well  in  long  endurance  rides. 

The  Welsh  and  the  Shetland  are  distinct  types  of 
pony  breeds  well  suited  to  breed  on  other  pony 
stocks  of  nondescript  type  for  the  production  of 
good  saddle  horses  for  children.  The  Shetland  is 
better  adapted  for  very  young  children,  and  the 
Welsh  for  those  between  ten  and  fifteen  years. 

In  general,  saddle  horses  should  stand  between 
15.1  and  15.3  hands  in  height,  have  two  good  ends 
and  a  good  middle,  possess  well  formed  withers, 
strong  back  muscles,  powerful  loins  and  heavily 
muscled  hind  quarters,  sloping  pasterns,  sloping 
shoulders,  heads  well  carried  up,  clean,  flinty 
underpinning  and  good  feet,  with  legs  properly  set 
on.  Last,  and  most  important  of  all,  they  must 
have  straight  action,  lively  temperament,  and 
keen  intelligence, — a  horse  like  this  is  capable  of 
meeting  any  test  and  is  a  satisfaction  and  joy  for- 
ever to  the  fortunate  owner. 


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yiyJ^ie^ant)  Gticourrt^e  (Ae3fTxding 

Jan.  e,  1921 


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District  Belle 

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Marlboro 

Photo  by  Haas 


Sir  Barton 
Sonde  up 


Mr*  ^Hm,   J.  Sutherland, 

President,   Chicago  Equestrian  iss'n, 

Chicago,   Illinois. 

lly  dear  Mr.  Sutherland: 

I  know  it  will  please  you  and  your  asso- 
ciates, to  learn  tliat  in  our  contact  with  the  various 
eouestrian  organizations  in  all  of  our  leading  cities, 
we  have  ccme  to  tte  conclusion  that  the  Chicago  Eques- 
trian Association  has  done  and  is  doing  more  definite, 
practical  work  for  equestrian  Interests  than  any  other 
similar  organization  in  the  country* 

Tour  organization  has  stood  shoulder  to 
shoulder  with  ours  in  the  fi^t  for  adequate  recog- 
nition of  the  rights  of  those  vAio  love  good  horses, 
and  you  and  your  co-wortors  have  been  big  enough, 
broad  enough  and  sufficiently  far -seeing  to  see  in 
the  future,  not  only  fuller  utilization  of  the  joys 
and  benefits  of  saddle  horses  and  the  e;:1;enEions 
of  bridle  paths  throu^  parks  and  into  the  country 
for  tl:em,  but  greater  advantage  taken  of  other  types 
of  horses  as  economic  factors  in  field  and  city  trans- 
portation* 

TVe  appreciate,  more  than  words  will  e:rpress, 
the  support  of  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Association, 
its  officers  and  members,  and  1  wish  to  thank  you 
heartily  for  the  splendid  coopetation  you  have  per- 
sonally given  us. 


wd/md 


Man  O'  War 
Kummer  up 

(f)  C.  C.  Cook 


Triangle    Polo    Team- 
Durlands 


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A 

Request 

To  all  our  neighbors  interested  in 
horses  and  horsemanship  to  join  the 

CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION 

Inserted  with 
compliments  of 

Sidney  Adler 

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THE     SATURDAY     EOENIftC     POST 


Aagmt  28. 1920 


THE     SATURDAY     EVENIMC     POST 


Augutt  28,  1920 


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Perhaps  We  Can  Help  Your  Business 
Ride  to  Profitable  Market  Domination 

Pages  could  hardly  tell  a  stronger   story   than  this 
reply  to  a  letter  of  inquiry  regarding  our  service: 

J  "As  to  the  efficiency  of  H.  Walton  Heegstra.  Incor- 

',  porated,  we  beg  to  say  that  the  service  rendered  by 

!  these  people  has  been  exceptionally  satisfactory. 

'  While  it  apparently  is  an  advertising  agency,  and  as 

such  is  quite  competent,  its  greatest  value  it  seems 
to  us,  consists  in  its  grasp  of  the  principles  of  mer- 
chandising generally  and  intensive  selling  in  par- 
ticular, so  that  its  apparent  prime  function  of  being 
advertising  agents,  becomes  decidedly  secondary 
(though    a    very    necessary  adjunct)    to   its 
value  as  merchandising  counsel,  from  manu- 
facturer right  through  all  the  intermediate 
channels   to  the   ultimate   consumer." 


EEG.STRA: 


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Competent  Instructors. 

Special  attention  to  ladies 
and  beginners. 

Best  of  care  to  boarders. 

Sanitary  stables. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 


We  wish  to  announce  that  we  have 
purchased  the  CHICAGO  RIDING 
ACADEMY,  formerly  conducted  by  Mr. 
E.  A.  Faulkenberg.  The  entire  academy 
has  been  remodeled  and  thoroughly  reno- 
vated, and  with  our  new  horses  and 
appointments  we  have  facilities  un- 
equalled by  any  other  academy.  Classes 
every  evening  at  8:00  o'clock. 

Chicago  Riding  Academy 

4724  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 

Phone  Kenwood  2033 


J.  E.  KOCH 


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The  World's  Horse  Market 

"The  place  to  buy  a  good  saddle  horse" 


HERE  are  some  who  do  not  realize  how  vast  a  business  in 
horses  is  done  at  the  Union  Stock  Yards,  Chicago.  There 
is  no  better  horse  market  in  the  world  than  exists  right 
here.  Naturally,  it  is  logical  to  expect  that  here  you 
will  find  saddle  horses  par  excellence  and  you  can  select 
just  the  horse  you  require. 


Dexter  Park  Livery  and 
Boarding  Stable 


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Famous  the  country 
and  boarding  stable 
patronage  is  solicited  on  a  basis  of  quality 
service  and  mounts — and  a  distinct  guaran- 
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tion will  prove  its  ability  to  serve  you. 


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Saddlery  Co. 

Complete,  up-to-date  equipment  for 
the  horse  and  stable.  Prompt  and 
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equipment  salesmen.  Your  require- 
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Reduced  Rates 
for  Spring  and  Summer 

Effective  from  May  until  October,  single  rooms  in  Hotel 
Ambassador  ^'-ill  be  available  from  seventy-five  dollars 
per  month,  ^.id  suites  from  one-hundred  and  fifty. 

Hotel  Ambassador  is  already  notable  for  the  excellence  of  its 
restaurant — a  vital  factor  in  selection  of  a  residential  hotel. 

Hotel  Ambassador  is  located  in  the  exclusive  residential 
section  at  North  State  and  Goethe  Streets.  Applications  are 
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THE  ONLY   RIDING   ACADEMY   SITUATED 
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•  1  'HE  ARENA  is  the  largest,  best 

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The  stables,  newly  built,  are  the  most 

sanitary  of  public  character  in  the  city 

J.   K.  STAUFER.   Proprietor 

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The  North  Shore  Polo  Club 


CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 


THE  MEMBERSHIP  FEE  for  playing  members 
is  $200.00  with  dues  of  $10.00  monthly.  Associ- 
ate members  $25.00  membership  fee  and  no  dues.  All 
privileges  of  the  club  are  granted  associate  members, 
except  playing  on  the  field.  Tuesday,  Thursday  and 
Sunday  are  the  regular  playing  days,  and  huge  crowds 
have  attended  as  spectators  on  these  days.  A  series 
of  games  were  played  in  the  past  year  with  the 
officers  of  Camp  Grant  and  Lake  Forest.  In  the 
coming  year  we  expect  to  have  two  fields,  one  for 
continuous  practice  and  the  other  for  regular  games. 


HERBERT  J.  LORBER,  President 
FRANK  HAYES.  Vice-President 


HELMUTH  A.  STARK.  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
FREDERICK  PEARSON.  Delegate 


OFFtCE  OF  SECRETARY 

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-Why  Some 
People  Wear 
Loud  Colors 


The  love  of  Color  is  strong  within  us  all.  From  the  beginning 
man  has  been  attracted  by  colors.  The  more  primitive  the 
mode  of  life  the  more  gaudy  the  colors,  for  people  living  closest 
to  nature  adopt  her  primary  colors.  Observe  the  appeal  of  xed 
to  the  American  Indian,  or  the  love  of  flamboyant  display  in 


the  striking  red,  blue  and  yellow  costumes  of  the  peasants  of  southern  Europe. 


As  people  progress  they  get  away  from  the  primary.    There  comes  refinement, 
binations  —  mixing  of  pigments  —  result  in  pleasing,  restful,  harmonious  effects. 


Com- 


The  appeal  of  lithography  in  colors  is  therefore  easy  to  understand.  Its  source  is 
deep  within  men  and  women.  And  this  appeal  will  never  die  if  lithography  keeps 
pace  with  the  advance  of  color  refinement  and  progress. 

Some  people  in  this  country  still  wear  loud  clothes  —  some  lithographs  still  shriek 
—  but  they  are  the  exception.  The  one  which  has  the  greatest  attraction  is  that  in 
good  taste  — bold  and  compelling  —  but  with  ease  and  force  of  presentation. 

This  class  of  lithography  we  like  to  design,  to  execute,  not  only  because  it  is 
artistic,  but  because  it  accomplishes  the  purpose  —  it  impresses  the  idea  which  is 
to  be  conveyed. 

EDWARDS  &  DEUTSCH  LITHOGRAPHING  CO., 

CHICAGO       :       MILWAUKEE. 


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Electric  is  twenty  years  ahead. 

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Service  Stations  all  over  the 
City  and  Evanston. 

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A  new  impetus  has  been  given  to  riding  at 
West  Baden  Springs  Hotel,  West  Baden,  Indi- 
ana, a  resort  famous  for  some  years  for  its 
excellent  stable  of  saddle  horses,  through  the 
construction,  during  the  past  year,  of  many 
miles  of  attractive  bridle  trails  over  the  sur- 
rounding hills.  Nearly  sixty  miles  of  new  bridle 
trails  have  been  laid  out  through  and  around 
the  West  Baden  estate,  and  these,  combined 
with  the  ones  formerly  in  use  and  the  paths 
radiating  from  French  Lick,  a  mile  away,  offer 
a  diversity  of  scenery  and  of 
horsemanship  unequalled  in  the 
state. 

Some  of  the  trails  lead  out 
into  the  open  fields  surrounding 
the  upland  golf  course — others 
wilder  and  more  rugged  wind 
through  almost  untouched  wood- 
lands and   upon  high  plateaus 


overlooking  a  magnificent  stretch  of  fertile 
valleys  and  farm  lands.  Others  lead  into  the 
old  whetstone  quarry  region,  where  picturesque 
crags  and  cliffs  seem  almost  mountainous,  giving 
all  the  thrills  of  real  mountain  chmbing. 

The  open  winter  has  made  this  great  sport 
unusually  popular  and  there  has  not  been  a 
day  now  for  more  than  a  year  when  equestrian 
parties  did  not  come  in  for  a  full  share  of  enjoy- 
ment. Even  the  youngsters  have  been  made 
happy  with  the  ponies  that  are 
kept  for  their  especial  use. 

A  riding  school  is  maintained 
in  connection  with  the  hotel 
with  competent  instructors  in 
charge.  L.  L.  Dickey,  an  ex- 
pert horseman  with  many  years 
experience  is  riding  master. 


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West  Baden  Springs 


A  Cordial  Invitation  Is  Extended 


to  Members  of 

The  Chicago  Equestrian  Club 

For  the  Season  of  1921 

A  stable  of  good  saddle  horses  and  a  hundred  miles  of  woodland  bridle 
trails  and  winding  country  roads  makes  this  an  ideal  resort  for  the  lover 
of  equestrian  sport.  You  will  find  a  wonderful  hotel,  attractively 
furnished,  set  in  the  midst  of  beautiful  surroundings.  There  is  golf, 
motoring,  bowling,  musical  programs  and  delightful  dancing  parties. 
Every    week-day    night    Sports    and    social    features    combined    with 

Mineral  Springs  and  Baths 
Make   West   Baden    the    Ideal    Spa   of   America 

THE  WEST  BADEN  SPRINGS  CO.,  WEST  BADEN,  INDIANA 
CHAS.  B.  REXFORD,  President  LEE  L.  PERSISE,  Secretary-Treasurer 


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TO  ORDER 


FOR 
IMMEDIATE  WEAR 


ENGLISH  HABIT  MAKERS 
SPORTING  TAILORS  AND  OUTFITTERS 


DISTINCTIVE 

TOWN  AND  COUNTRY 

CLOTHES 


EXCLUSIVE  FABRICS  FROM  THE  MASTER  LOOMS  OF  THE  WORLD 


581-583  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK 


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Cor  reel:  Riding 
Breeches 


Riding  Suits  anj  Smart  Sport  Coats 
for  Ladies 


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LEONA    FARMS 

ARTHUR  NAYLOR 

GENERAL  MANAGER 

LEONA  FARMS  situated  on  the  hills  of  the  west 
bank  of  the  Fox  River  between  Algonquin  and 
Gary,  Illinois. 

We  breed,  buy,  sell,  train  and  show  Saddle  Horses 
and  Hackney  Ponies.  Have  twenty-four  brood  mares 
all  Denmark  Bred. 

Alan-a-Dale,  winner  of  Kentucky  Derby  in  his 
three-year  old  form  and  winner  of  many  other  races, 
who  is  sire  of  the  best  hunting  stock,  in  the  East. 

Red  Rex,  sire  of  Radiant  and  other  high  class  saddle 
horses  and  an  Imported  Belgian  Stallion  comprise  the 
sires  of  the  establishment. 

Arthur  Naylor  has  charge  of  the  Horse  Department 
and  acts  as  General  Manager. 

The  Farm  is  44  miles  from  Chicago  and  concrete 
roads  lead  out  three  quarters  of  the  way — Milwaukee 
Avenue  and  Rand  Road  through  to  Barrington,  Illinois. 


MRS.    FANNIE   HERTZ 


OWNER 
Galumet  6000. 


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Bird's-eye    View   from 

Leona  Farms  Home 

Over  Farm  and  Fox  River 


Alan-A-Dale 
Winner  Kentucky  Derby 


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I  sell  horses 


"Money  back"  guarantee 


DIVERSEY 

4      17      0 


Come  to  my  stable — see  my  personally  selected  stallions — 
geldings  and  mares,  three  and  five  gaited,  sound  as  a  dollar, 
ready  for  expert  or  novice  in  show  ring  or  park.  Whether 
ONE  HORSE  OR  A  SHOW  STABLE— pick  your  choice- 
see  them  stripped  or  under  the  saddle — ride  them — decide, 
then — if  after  riding  for  a  week  or  two  you  find  some  point 
or  condition  that  doesn't  suit  make  another  selection,  or 
get  your  money  back,  if  you  prefer.  Where  else  can  you 
find  this  customer-protecting  policy.  Selling  horses  on  a  real 
business  basis  has  built  for  me  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
successful  sales  stables  in  this  country — and  that's  the  test. 


PRICES 
RIGHT 


B.  Roger  Pemberton 

2223    Cleveland    Avenue,    Chicago 


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PAUL  C.  LOEBER  JOHN  G.  PROSS 

Paul  C.  Loeber  &  Co. 

REAL   ESTATE 

TELEPHONES  FRANKLIN  756  and  757 

1 1 1  West  Washington  Street  CHICAGO 


REAL  ESTATE  INVESTMENTS 
INDUSTRIAL  PROPERTY  A  SPECIALTY 
BUILDINGS  ERECTED  TO  SUIT 
VALUATORS  OF  REAL  ESTATE 


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THE  LARGEST  COUNTRY  CLUB  IN  THE  WORLD 

TWENTY-SIX  miles  out  on  the  main  line  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad, 
with  concrete  or  stone  motor  roads  all  the  way  from  Chicago. 

Its  property  consists  of  a  tract  of  wooded  and  rolling  land  embracing  674 
acres.  Winding  through  it  is  beautiful  Butterfield  Creek — two  miles  in 
length. 

It  has  three  18-hole  courses  completed  and  the  fourth  under  construction; 
with  a  full  membership  of  1,000  Charter  and  Regular  Members. 

The  service  roads  winding  over  the  courses  and  through  the  woods  afford 
many  beautiful  bridle  paths. 

Radiating  from  its  property  in  all  directions  are  miles  of  dirt  roads  lead- 
ing through  beautiful  farming  communities  and  to  several  forest  preserves. 

Nowhere  else  near  Chicago  are  the  attractions  for  the  equestrian  equal  to 
those  that  exist  at  Olympia. 

Realizing  this,  their  Board  of  Governors  last  season  appointed  an  Eques- 
trian Committee  to  develop  this  form  of  sport.  One  of  the  farm  barns  was 
converted  into  a  stable  with  accommodations  for  twenty-five  horses,  and 
within  a  few  weeks  it  was  filled  with  horses  and  ponies. 

The  Governors  then  took  another  step  in  promoting  this  feature  at 
Olympia  by  creating  fifty  Special  Equestrian  Memberships,  applications 
for  which  are  now  being  received. 


FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  ADDRESS 


WILLIAM  E.  DEE,  Chairman 

Equestrian  Committee 

30  North  La  Salle  St. 

CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 


-OR- 


Olympia  Fields  Country  Club 

MATTESON,  ILL. 
Phone  CHI.  HTS.  496 


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Saddle  Horses 

TT  7E  have  some  unusual  high  qual- 
V  V  ity  horses,  three  and  five  gaited  as 
well  as  some  combination  horses, 
well  broken  both  to  saddle  and  harness. 
Show  individuals  that  will  attract  atten- 
tion anywhere.     Prices  reasonable,  qual- 
ity high. 

BROAD  VIEW  FARM 

LA  PORTE,                                                  INDIANA 

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Compliments  of 


A  Friend 


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to  you  as  I  have 
to  scores  of  satis- 
fied customers 
that  I  have  a 
horse  for  every 
placeandaplace 
for  every  horse. 


E.  D.  BILLINGS 
3830  Ellis  Avenue 
CHICAGO 

Dealer  in  fine  3  and  5 
gaited     Saddle     Horses 


KENWOOD  3423 


Perfect  your  figure,  increase 
your  energy,  and  improve 
your    general    appearance 

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John  Clays  Hunling  Story  {^Continued  from  page  35) 

In  the  spring  time,  if  he  got  back  in  time,  he  would 
change  his  clotlies,  get  into  a  boat  and  catch  a  salmon  in 
the  stream  made  by  the  junction  of  the  Tweed  and  Teviot. 
In  my  day  he  hunted  four  days  a  week.  Monday  and 
Friday  in  Northumberland  and  Tuesday  and  Saturday  in 
Berwickshire.  He  was  one  of  the  old  type  of  artistocrats 
in  looks,  manner  and  language;  of  the  latter  he  had  fine 
command — very  forcible  and  sometimes  exceedingly 
naughty.  We  looked  upon  him  as  a  sort  of  a  demi-god 
and  you  were  certainly  trained  the  way  you  should  go 
while  following  his  hounds.  He  hunted  them  at  his  own 
expense  and  he  had  very  little  respect  for  his  followers. 
Withal  he  was  wonderfully  popular. 

My  father  moved  his  residence  in  1867  to  Roxburgh- 
shire. We  were  just  west  of  the  Northumberland  coun- 
try and  continued  to  hunt  occasionally  with  his  Lordship, 
although  our  home  was  in  the  Buccleuch  country.  There 
under  the  greatest  huntsman  it  has  ever  been  my  lot  to 
meet,  I  really  got  my  hunting  education.  William  Shore 
hunted  the  above  hounds  for  nearly  forty  years.  He  was 
an  accomplished  horseman,  had  a  fine  eye  for  country  and 
was  never  far  from  hounds.  He  was  an  autocrat  in  the 
field  having  a  very  acid  tongue,  but  as  he  produced  mar- 
velous sport,  he  was  forgiven.  Away  from  the  hunting 
field  or  on  the  way  home  after  the  day's  sport,  he  was 
the  most  delightful  of  men,  versed  in  folk  lore,  well  read 
in  all  kinds  of  Uterature,  a  keen  humor  running  through 
his  conversation.  When  he  left  this  earthly  scene  I  lost 
one  of  my  best  friends.  I  hear  this  evening  as  I  write 
the  echo  of  his  horn,  the  deep  sonorous  note  of  his  voice 
as  he  cheered  his  pack  and  made  the  woodlands  ring. 
Many  a  time,  with  a  bad  catchy  scent,  he  walked  his  fox 
to  death,  a  slow,  patient,  marvelous  piece  of  business 
requiring  wonderful  skill  and  knowledge.  He  was  a  hero 
to  the  boys,  a  guide  to  the  older  hands  and  in  this  way 

{Continued  on  page  114) 


H.  S.  CAYWOOD 


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of  five  and  three  gaited 
Kentucky  saddle  horses.  :: 
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nered horses  on  hand  at 
all  times — prices  reasonable. 
Always  some  show  prospects 
in  my  barn.  Sold  the  one 
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if  you  studied  his  methods  instinctively  you  learned  the 

game. 

When  I  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  make  my  home  in 
Canada  first  and  then  in  the  States,  I  had  to  give  up  my 
favorite  sport,  but  whenever  1  felt  able  I  went  over  to 
the  beautiful  Borderland  and  joined  the  glad  throng. 
For  exercise,  for  exhilaration,  for  the  development  of 
comradeship,  nothing  compares  in  the  realms  of  sport  to 
fox  hunting.  There  on  the  hillside  is  a  young  wood  or  a 
few  acres  of  gorse  where  in  some  cozy  spot  reynard  is 
kennelled.  The  spotted  beauties  top  a  wall  as  if  a  blanket 
covered  them.  The  fox  is  at  home.  They  push  him  up. 
As  he  moves  a  hound  hits  off  his  line  through  the  cover. 
There  is  a  whimper,  then  a  full  note,  then  a  chorus. 
Up  a  small  ravine  the  fox  slips  away.  If  you  see  him 
leaving  do  not  holloa — as  Mr.  Jorrocks  says,  "count 
twenty."  Then  if  the  huntsman  does  not  know  he  has 
left,  or  hounds  are  still  hanging  in  cover,  raise  your  hat, 
use  your  whistle  or  if  necessary  holloa  hounds  away. 

Old  Rallywood  tops  the  wall  a  few  yards  over  he  chal- 
lenges and  the  pack  comes  to  his  well  known  note  and 
the  merry  chase  begins.  Over  a  hill  top  you  see  the 
flying  fox  his  little  figure  silhouetted  against  the  sky.  He 
has  followed  a  wall  for  about  half  a  mile,  then  turning 
sharp  to  his  right  we  see  him  disappear  a  mile  or  more 
ahead.  The  pack  flash  past  the  point  he  has  turned  at 
right  angles.  As  they  lose  the  scent  they  swing  round 
instinctively  in  a  wide  cast.  Then  they  pick  up  the  line; 
the  field  charges  at  many  points  a  four-foot  stone  wall. 

The  hoiuids  are  racing  now  and  for  forty  minutes  it  is 
steeple-chasing  across  a  fine  lot  of  grass  fields  with  easy 
fences,  across  a  river  to  the  base  of  a  steep  hill  which 
has  tried  many  a  horse's  mettle.  Gradually  the  fox  climbs 
it  but  a  quarter  of  the  way  he  keeps  along  its  side  and 
gradually  descends  again. 


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With  my  heavy  weight  (220  lbs.)  I  keep  along;  a  steep 
track  far  below  the  hounds  who  have  fortunately  for 
most  of  the  field  their  noses  to  the  ground.  The  hunts- 
man is  doubling  his  horn  cheering  them  on  as  one  hound 
after  another  picks  up  the  line  and  lifts  up  his  voice. 
Lawyer,  with  his  fine  nose  and  wonderful  tongue,  is  cutting 
out  the  work.  Then  Sportsman  dashes  in  front  and  so 
the  rivalry  goes  on. 

We  sink  the  hill  by  a  farm  road  to  a  valley  below  where 
a  main  turnpike  runs.  My  horse  is  just  about  all  in,  but 
he  comes  downwards  at  a  trot  throwing  his  forefeet  a  bit 
wildly.  Down  below  are  several  horsemen,  among  them 
my  second  horseman  Jimmy  Drummond.  As  we  get  to 
the  road  the  huntsman  jumps  from  his  beaten  horse  to  a 
fresh  mount.  Several  of  us  do  the  same.  The  pack  is 
traveling  again.  Away  in  the  distance  a  shepherd's  hat 
is  in  the  air,  a  signal  that  the  quarry  has  passed  in.  My 
horse,  one  of  the  great  showyard  heavy  weights  of  Eng- 
land is  pulling  double.  We  skirt  another  hillside  with  a 
wall  running  diagonally  across  it;  )our  eye  scans  it  for  a 
weak  place,  half  way  there  is  a  gateway.  The  gate  is 
tied,  so  I  go  right  at  it.  There  is  a  rattle,  it  sounds  like 
a  top  rail  gone,  but  there  is  no  time  to  look  back. 

The  hounds  point  for  a  wood  a  mile  or  more  away. 
When  they  get  inside  there  is  a  tremendous  chorus.  We  get 
through  the  wood  by  a  ride  near  the  middle  of  it.  Down 
the  hill  hounds  are  streaming,  scarce  a  note  coming  from 
them.  Away  we  go  at  breakneck  pace  down  a  steep  hill, 
across  a  level  field  at  the  bottom  of  it.  The  hounds 
have  the  best  of  it,  but  they  falter  at  a  road  up  which 
the  fox  has  run  a  couple  of  hundred  yards. 

Steady  now,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  let  them  puzzle 
it  out!  Bridget  has  him  up  the  road  to  an  old  wood. 
Here  the  pack  sneaks  again.  We  follow  them  through 
the  tall  pine  trees,  over  a  rotten  sort  of  ditch  into  the 
open. 


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There  is  a  grass  field  beyond  and  about  the  middle 
we  see  the  fox  traveling  across  it.  There  is  an  ugly  sort 
of  bank  and  burn  to  be  negotiated.  We  got  across  with- 
out any  grief.  Hounds,  horses  and  men  feel  the  impulse. 
Down  a  wall  side  the  fox  makes  his  weary  way.  We  get 
through  a  couple  of  gates,  the  pack  is  on  both  sides  of  the 
wall,  a  ploughman  and  a  pair  of  horses  are  standing  about 
a  couple  of  hundred  yards  just  about  to  turn  for  a 
fresh  furrow.  The  beaten  fox  cannot  face  him,  so  with 
a  last  effort  he  jumps  the  wall,  a  hound  grabs  at  him  and 
as  he  jumps  back  again  he  lands  among  the  pack.  "Who' 
woop!"    Time — 1  hour  and  30  minutes  without  a  check. 

When  I  was  a  boy  I  heard  the  old  men  talk  of  the 
glorious  days  they  had  spent  with  hounds  and  ever  utter- 
ing a  note  of  regret  that  the  sport  which  Somerville  thus 
describes  in  that  wonderful  poem  on  the  "Chase": 

"My  horse-sounding  horn 
Invites  thee  to  the  chase,  the  sport  of  kings. 
Image  of  war  without  its  quiet." 

Of  course  you  believed  in  this  pessimistic  view,  for  a 
Scotch  boy  was  brought  up  in  the  rigid  faith  not  to 
dispute  with  his  father  or  mother,  his  uncles  or  his  aunts. 
But  the  records  are  against  this  view  of  things,  for  I 
find  in  looking  over  Bailey's  Hunting  Directory  of  1912-13 
there  were  497  packs  of  hounds  in  the  United  Kingdom — 
214  of  them  foxhounds.  This  is  a  record  number  so 
far  as  I  know.  The  war  of  course  nearly  killed  hunting 
but  since  its  close  there  has  been  a  steady  gain  and  in 
many  hunts  you  cannot  see  much  change. 

While,  as  said  above,  I  have  hunted  ever  since  boyhood, 
it  was  not  until  1891  that  1  began  to  keep  a  stud  of  horses 
in  Scotland  or  England.  Since  that  date  till  last  October 
I  have  generally  had  a  few  good  hunters.  When  actually 
hunting  I  kept  eight  to  ten  horses  and  they  were  needed 
to  keep  you  going  six  days  a  week. 


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My  best  season  was  1902-3  when  I  put  in  ninety-eight 
days  with  hounds,  generally  riding  to  the  meets.  This 
made  a  toil  out  of  pleasure,  in  a  way.  I  was  at  the  death 
of  nearly  one  hundred  foxes. 

In  1910  I  took  over  the  North  Northumberland  country 
and  was  Master  for  five  years,  when  the  war  stopped 
proceedings  so  far  as  I  was  concerned.  A  Committee  kept 
the  hunt  going,  my  good  friend,  the  Hon.  F.  W.  Lambton, 
bearing  most  of  the  burden.  I  became  Master  again  1st 
March,  1919,  and  retired  1st  May,  1920.  The  present  in- 
come tax  and  hunting  hounds  do  not  agree.  While  I 
had  the  hounds,  I  ran  them  top-hole,  to  use  a  slang 
expression,  having  August  1st,  1914,  fifty  couple  of  hounds 
and  twenty-five  horses.  The  reason  was  that  for  many 
years  I  had  hunted  in  the  Borderland  for  practically  noth- 
ing. Then  I  had  an  illustrious  lot  of  predecessors — Lord 
Wennyss,  Watson-Askey,  Sir  John  Majoribanks,  Major 
Hunter,  Sir  James  Miller  (winner  of  the  Derby  twice  with 
Sanfoin  and  Rocksand),  Mrs.  Burrell  and  James  Fenwick, 
all  of  them  good  sports.  My  successor  is  Col.  Hugh 
loicay,  a  fine  sportsman  of  whom  I  hear  good  accounts. 

In  writing  for  a  Chicago  Equestrian  Society,  the  his- 
tory of  a  horse  purchased  in  Chicago  should  not  be 
omitted.  My  hunting  pal,  John  S.  Rigg,  of  Appleby,  Eng- 
land, one  of  the  very  best  across  country  in  England, 
was  over  here  purchasing  hunters.  One  day  he  came 
across  a  rough  looking  chestnut  colt,  big  of  limb,  shortly 
coupled  with  a  blood  looking  head,  but  a  bit  thin  in 
his  waist.  This  horse  had  cost  $187.50  at  auction.  He 
brought  him  to  our  stable  on  Lake  Park  Avenue. 

A  day  or  two  afterward,  he  tried  him  over  some  jumps. 
He  made  a  great  grunt  and  of  course  that  meant  that  he 
would  be  crabbed  on  examination  by  a  "vet".  Rigg 
was  discouraged,  so  I  said  I  would  take  him  off  his 
hands  as  he  looked  like  carrying  me  at  the  Yards  or  in 
the  park. 


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The  first  time  I  got  on  him,  he  went  up  in  the  air  and 
nearly  came  back  over  on  me.  We  got  a  stout  piece  of 
twine  and  made  a  standing  martingale,  then  started  out. 
We  met  a  motor  outside  the  alley  and  he  jumped  ten  feet. 
When  we  got  to  Drexel  Boulevard  he  went  all  over  the 
place — through  the  bushes,  over  garden  plots,  etc. 

It  was  hopeless,  so  I  sent  him  to  the  late  WiUie  Good- 
win's at  Naperville.  There  I  forgot  him  from  May  till 
August.  One  of  the  dealers  at  the  Yards  was  shipping 
a  load  of  horses  to  Liverpool,  England,  so  I  sent  this 
horse  along.  His  first  performance  in  Scotland  was  to 
put  the  groom  down.  However,  they  put  a  strong  stand- 
ing martingale  on  him  and  although  always  motor  shy, 
he  entered  well  with  hounds.  He  was  a  natural  jumper. 
1  began  riding  him  when  I  got  home. 

One  day  before  the  regular  season  began,  when  we 
were  cub  hunting,  hounds  got  away  on  the  line  of  an  old 
fox.  They  went  a  great  pace  across  the  vale,  then  we 
breasted  a  long  steep  hill,  a  mile  or  more,  down  the  other 
wide.  Just  about  the  bottom  of  it  the  fox  turned  nearly 
directly  back.     We  had  of  course  to  go  with  the  pack. 

The  chestnut  colt,  which  by  this  time  I  had  named 
Chicago,  never  stopped  galloping  and  charged  every  fence 
(and  there  were  some  woolly  ones)  with  great  courage. 
I  had  got  a  prize.  For  ten  years  I  rode  him  over  hill 
and  dale.  It  did  not  matter  whether  you  were  in  a  close 
country  or  galloping  over  the  hills — he  was  equally  at 
home.  I  never  had  a  horse  that  loved  a  jump  as  much 
as  he  did.  He  went  right  at  it  pulling  double  and  in 
later  years  never  wasted  a  pound  of  energy.  While  he 
was  a  damphool  when  he  met  or  saw  a  motor  he  was 
one  of  the  wisest  horses  I  ever  crossed  country  upon. 

One  morning  he  was  dead  in  his  stall.  Well  done,  good 
and  faithful  servant!  Not  only  servant,  but  a  rare  com- 
panion. 


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Continued  from  page  61 

Completion  of  the  plans  of  the  South  Park  Commission 
providing  a  bridle  path  on  the  new  made  land  along 
the  lake  front  from  Jackson  Park  to  Chicago  River,  will 
make  possible  a  complete  circuit  of  the  city. 

On  carrying  out  such  a  program,  it  is  entirely  within 
the  realm  of  possibility  that  endurance  tests  for  the  United 
States  army  may  be  held  in  the  future  on  a  three  hundred 
mile  circuit  beginning  and  ending  on  bridle  paths  of  Chi- 
cago parks.  These  tests,  held  annually,  are  to  bring  out 
the  types  and  strains  best  calculated  for  the  rigors  of 
cavalry  service. 

The  creation  of  a  great  army  of  civilian  riders  in  this 
and  other  cities,  mounted  on  horses  conforming  to  the 
ideal  cavalry  types  (for  the  best  animals  for  army  pur- 
poses are  also  the  most  valuable  for  sport),  will  create 
a  demand  which  will  do  more  than  any  other  single  factor 
to  encourage  the  breeding  of  an  ample  supply  of  suitable 
horses. 

The  main  city  organ,  through  which  riding  interests 
are  united,  is  the  Chicago  Equestrian  Club. 

The  American  Remount  Association  with  headquarters 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  has  many  members  in  Chicago.  It 
is  concerned  primarily  with  encouraging  the  breeding  of 
cavalry  horses,  and  in  this  connection,  gives  general  sup- 
port to  horseback  riding  everywhere,  to  build  up  a  nation- 
wide market  for  cavalry  mounts,  which  can  be  drawn  on 
in  emergency. 

And  finally,  there  is  no  phase  of  horse  production  and 
use  which  is  not  the  direct  concern  of  the  Horse  Associa- 
tion of  America,  which  has  its  national  and  city  head- 
quarters at  822  Exchange  Ave.,  Union  Stock  Yards.  Wayne 
Dinsmore  is  the  Secretary. 


GEO.  B.   McKILLIP,  M.D.V. 
WALTER  J.  McKILLIP.  M.D.V. 


McKillip  Veterinary  Hospital 


1639  Wabash  Avenue 
CHICAGO 

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Office  Hours 
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1  to  3  P.M. 
7  to  9  P.M. 


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REGENSTEIN-VEEDER  CO. 

Manufacturers  of 

Cardboards  and  Bristols 

Offset  Blanks 

Advertising   Displays 

3432-50  North  Kimball  Avenue 
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CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS 


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CONSTITUTION. 
ARTICLE  I. 

Name. 

Section  1.  This  body  shall  be  a  voluntary  association 
under  the  name  of  Chicago  Equestrian  Association. 

ARTICLE  II. 
Section  1.  The  object  of  the  Association  is  to 
create,  stimulate  and  maintain  interest  in  horseback 
riding  in  and  about  Chicago;  to  obtain  the  best  possible 
facilities  therefor;  to  foster  social  intercourse,  and  to 
work  together  for  the  common  advantage  of  all  who 
ride  horseback. 

ARTICLE  III. 

Section  1.  Anyone  of  good  moral  character  who 
rides  a  horse,  or  is  interested  in  equestrianism,  is  eli- 
gible to  membership. 

Sec.  2.  To  become  a  member  of  the  Association,  the 
name  of  the  applicant  shall  be  proposed  by  a  member 
of  the  Association,  in  conformity  with  the  directions  of 
the  Board  of  Directors.  If  accepted  by  the  Board,  the 
applicant,  upon  payment  of  the  initiation  fee,  shall 
receive  a  membership  card  and  the  insignia  of  the 
Association. 

Sec.  3.  Any  member  whose  dues  are  not  paid  by 
August  Ist  of  each  year  shall  be  dropped  from  member- 
ship. The  Treasurer  shall,  as  soon  after  August  Ist  as 
possible,  notify  all  members  who  are  suspended  under 
this  provision,  and  if  they  remit  their  dues  within  ten 
days  after  the  sending  of  such  notice  they  shall  be  auto- 
matically reinstated,  but  after  that  time  has  elapsed 
they  may  be  reinstated  only  by  vote  of  the  Board  of 
Directors,  and  upon  payment  of  current  dues  and  all 
past  indebtedness. 


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ARTICLE  IV. 
Officers. 

Section  1.  The  affairs  of  the  Association  shall  be 
managed  and  conducted  by  a  board  of  ten  directors, 
consisting  of  the  President,  Vice-President,  Secretary, 
Treasurer  and  six  others,  all  of  whom  shall  be  elected 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Association. 

If  a  vacancy  occurs,  the  remainder  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  shall  elect  a  successor  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term. 

Sec.  2.  No  one  shall  be  eligible  for  election  to  the 
office  of  President,  Vice-President,  Secretary  or  Treas- 
urer, who  has  not  been  a  member  of  the  Association  for 
one  year  prior  to  the  meeting  at  which  the  election  is 
held. 

ARTICLE  V. 
Meetings. 

Section  1.  The  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Association 
shall  be  held  between  the  15th  of  November  and  the 
15th  of  December,  the  date  and  place  to  be  fixed  by  the 
Board  of  Directors,  and  at  least  ten  days'  notice  thereof 
given  to  the  members. 

Sec.  2.  Meetings  of  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  be 
held  whenever  called  by  the  Secretary,  at  the  direction 
of  the  President,  or  any  three  members  of  said  Board. 
Five  members  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

Sec.  3.  Special  meetings  of  the  Association  may  be 
called  by  the  President,  or  by  any  three  members  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  upon  ten  days'  notice  in  writing 
being  given  by  mail  to  each  member  of  the  Association. 

ARTICLE  VI. 
Duties  of  Officers. 
Section  1.     The   President,   and   in   his   absence,  the 
Vice-President,    shall    preside    at    all    meetings    of    the 
Association  and  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Sec.  2.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  the  minutes,  attend 
to  the  correspondence,  give  all  notices,  and  perform  all 
duties  usually  pertinent  to  that  office,  or  that  may  be 
required  by  the  Board. 


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RASMUSSEN 

RIDING  ACADEMY 

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Sec.  3.  The  Treasurer  shall  revise  and  keep  up  a 
list  of  the  members,  collect  the  dues,  have  charge  of  all 
funds,  pay  bills,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  may 
be  required  by  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Sec.  4.  No  expenses  shall  be  incurred  except  by 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Sec.  5.  The  President  shall  appoint  a  committee  to 
audit  the  Treasurer's  accounts  in  time  for  them  to  make 
a  report  at  the  Annual  Meeting. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

Section  1.  The  insignia  of  the  Association  shall  be 
a  badge  with  the  letters  "'C.  E.  A."  to  be  fixed  to  the 
headstall  on  the  near-side  of  the  horse,  and  all  members 
are  requested  to  wear  the  same. 


BY-LAWS. 
1.     The  election  of  Directors  shall  be  by  ballot  and 
the  majority  of  the  votes  cast  shall  elect. 

3.  The  initiation  fee  shall  be  Three  Dollars,  which 
shall  include  dues  for  the  remainder  of  the  current  year. 

4.  The  annual  dues  of  the  Association  shall  be  Two 
Dollars,  payable  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January 
of  each  year. 

5.  The  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Association 
may  be  amended  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members 
present  at  the  annual  meeting,  or  at  any  special  meeting 
of  the  Association,  provided  ten  days'  notice  in  writing 
of  such  intended  amendment  be  mailed  to  the  members. 


Cash  contributions  —  to  help  com- 
plete this  book  are  gratefully  ac- 
knowledged from 

1.     John  R.  Thompson 
2.     Chas.  LeRoy  Brown 
3.     Wm.  E.  Daniels 
4.     E.  R.  Shaw 

5.      Morris  Rosenwald 
6.     Frank  Flynn 


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People  Who 
Discriminate- 


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SINCE 

1887 


"POLKS  who  know  what  constitutes  a  good  in- 
■^  vestment— who  appreciate  the  importance  of 
safety,  conservation  and  non- fluctuation  when 
buying  securities — these  are  the  people  who  are 
almost  certain  to  purchase 

H.  O.  STONE  86  CO.'S  FIRST 
MORTGAGE  REAL  ESTATE  BONDS 

Such  people  have  every  reason  to  feel  certain  that 
their  investment  is  safe-guarded — that  every  pre- 
caution has  been  taken  for  the  safety  of  their 
money.  Houses  such  as  H.  O.  Stone  &  Co.  wish  that 
EVERY  investor  were  as  well  informed  and  certain 
of  their  investments  as  the  readers  of  The  Chicago 
Equestrian  Association  Year  Book. 

We'd  like  to  send  you  from  time  to  time 
such  investment  literature  as  we  publish 
about  these  high  grade  bonds.  May  we 
do  so?     If  so,  drop  us   a   line,  requesting 

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Conway  Bldg.,  Ill  W.  Washington  St. 

S.  W.  Cor.  Clark  CHICAGO 


Mushina 

1348  East  Forty-seventh  Street 

Chicago 


Tailleurs 

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Highly  Original  and 
Exclusive    Lines 

Riding  Habits  and 
Automobile    Coats 


Telephone 

Oakland 

1949 


1  STATE  7560 
I  STATE  7561 


GEORGE  W.  LAMSON  &  CO. 

310 

STATE-LAKE 

BUILDING 

Investment  Securities 


BOND  DEPARTMENT 
MISS  RUTH  MOODY,  MGR. 


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SADDLE  HORSES 

OF  BOTH  TYPES 

for  the  Show  ring  or  Bridle  path. 

A  selected  collection  for  the  dis- 
criminating purchaser  always  on 
hand. 

Having  the  use  of  the  Dexter  park 
pavilion  "Home  of  the  Interna- 
tional" 1  am  ideally  located  to  train 
and  educate  horses  the  year  around 
and  will  accept  a  few  outside 
horses  to  develop  at  reasonable 
rates. 

DEL  HOLEMAN 


BARN  24 


U.  S.  YARDS 


PHONE  YARDS  5580 


Pretty  Careless! 

You  don't  see  much  money 
thrown  around  foolishly  these 
days — but  you  see  a  lot  of  sad- 
dle horses  around  uninsured, 
which  means  about  the  same. 

Get  paid  for  losses  by  insuring 
your  horses  under  Hartford 
Live  Stock  policies.  Do  this 
now. 

A  telephone  call  or  request  by  mail  to 
either  of  the  addresses  given  below  will 
bring  you  full  information  on  the  sub- 
ject of  Hartford  protection. 

A.  O.  AUTEN,  State  Agent 

1337    Insurance    Exchange   Bldg. 
TELEPHONE:     HARRISON  7795 

.  .   .  OR  .   .   . 

FRANK  M.  BOYD 

GENERAL  AGENT 

39  South  LaSalle  Street, 

TELEPHONE:     CENTRAL  1296 


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THE 

UP-TO-DATE 
WOMAN 

The  woman  of  active 
body  and  brain,  needs 
an  up-to-date  corset. 


THE  KABO  LIVE  MODEL 

Fitted  over  live  models  who  subject 
it  to  every  use  that  will  later  be 
required  of  it,  has  kept  pace  with 
feminine  progress.  This  corset  keeps 
its  shape,  but  allows  every  sort  of 
bending  made  necessary  by  an  active 
life. 


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ROSTER  CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION 

Corrected  to  April  14th,  1921 


Charles  R.  Adams 

Robert  H.  Adams 

Harry  Adams 

Harry  R.  Adams 

Miss  Rose  Adler 

Sidney  Adler 

Louis  N.  Ainbinder 

E.  E.  Amory 

Miss  Margaret  C.  Anderes 

C.  H.  Anderson 

Miss  Esther  Mae  Anderson 

O.  J.  Arnold 

Laurance  H.  Armour 

Clarence  L.  Ascher 

James  H.  Ashby 

Emmett  E.  Bain 

Miss  Blanche  Baker 

Miss  Edna  Baker 

A.   Ballenberg 

Miss  Lola  Rowe  Banash 

Maurice  A.  Barnett 

P.   Barnett 

M.  W.  Baumgarden 

Mrs.   Mary   A.   Baumwell 

Robert   Becker 

Ben  L.  Behr 

Lewis  J.  Bergman 

Colonel  Frederic  A.  Besley 

Mrs.  Frederic  A.  Besley 

G.  J.  Bichl 

Harold  L.  Bickel 

Mrs.  E.  D.  Billings 

E.   D.   Billings 

Frank  J.  Birk 

Roster  contin 


Frank  J.  Birk 

Frank  J.  Birk 

W.  G.  Bisbee 

Mrs.  W.  G.  Bisbee 

Sylvester  Blish 

Mrs.  Edith  Groendyke  Bloomficld 

David  Blumrosen 

Dwight  S.  Bobb 

F.  J.  Boehm 
Ambrose  J.  Bonfig 

Miss  Margurite  J.  Bonfig 

Joseph  T.  Bowen,  Jr. 

Miss  Doris  V.  Bovifman 

Ralph  R.  Bradley 

Mrs.  Ella  Brady 

John  S.  Broeksmit 

Miss  Lettie  Brooks 

Chas.  Le  Roy  Brown 

G.  D.  Brown 
J.  O.  Brown 

Miss  Margurite  H.  Brown 
Mrs.  Louise  Burgess 
Fred  L.  Bun- 
Fred  R.  Burrows 
Leonard  A.  Busby 
Miss  Mabel  K.  Busse 
Eugene  Byfield 

Miss  \.  C.  Caldwell 

Dr.  Anson  Cameron 

Miss  A.  C.  Cameron 

Gordon  Cameron 

Wm.  Roy  Carney 

Paul  Carpenter 

ued  on  page  128. 


Mr.  Morris  lioseimuld 
and  daughters 


Miss  Catherine  Rosenwald  on  "Porter  Mac  Donald" 


127 


ROSTER  CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION 


James  J.  Carroll 

L.  A.  Carton 

James  E.  Chenill 

Edw.  B.  Chrisdno 

Miss  Elizabeth  Clare 

Edward  L.  Cleveland 

Miss   Nan  Scott -Clithero 

Harry  Coan 

Seymour  H.  Cohen 

Miss  Virginia  Cohan 

Miss  Clara  R.  Condon 

J.  Stanley  Conroy 

Miss  Edith  S.  Cook 

Percy  Q.  Cook 

Mrs.  C.  C.  Cooley 

Prentiss  L.  Coonley 

F.  D.  Corley 

H.  W.  Cornelius 

Dr.  Chas.  K.  Corsant 

C.  H.  Cowan 

Mrs.  A.  G.  Cox 

Arthur  M.  Cox 

Val  Crane 

Mrs.  Chas.  N.  Crewdson 

Miss  Marie  Croll 

Miss  Hazel  Crone 

Arthur  B.  Crosby 

Mrs.  Arthur  B.  Crosby 

Wm.  Daniel 

General  Abel  Davis 

Wm.  E.  Dee 

Henry  Degginger 

Wm.  J.  Delaney 

Mrs.  Daisy  Denninger 

J.  K.  Dering  « 

Leonard  H.  Des  Isles 


Luther  S.  Dickey,  Jr. 

John  R.  Dickey 

Wayne  Dinsmore 

Miss  Madeline  Dougherty 

James  Douglas 

James  Draper 

Charles  P.  Dryden 

Mrs.  Ervin  Dryer 

Miss  Lillian  E.  Dudenbostel 

Raymond  C.  Dudley 

G.  W.  Dulany,  Jr. 

Mrs.  G.  W.  Dulany,  Jr. 

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Dunbar 

Charles  A.  Dunbar 

John  T.  Dunbar 

J.   Paul  Dunne 

W.  L.  Eaton 

Alfar  Eberhardt 
Mrs.  John  Eberson 

John  Eberson 
Webb  S.  Edwards 

Max  Eitel 

C.  Groverman  Ellis 

Carleton  L.  Elmes 

Aaron  R.   Eppstein 

Max  Epstein 

Miss  Edna  Felty 

Raymond  Fitzgerald 

A.  W.  Fleming 

Leonard  Florsheim 

Louis  Florsheim 

Frank  M.  Flynn 

Miss  Ida  D.  Fogelson 

General  Milton  J.  Foreman 

Gerhard    Forem.an 

Charles  K.  Foster 


Wm.  Elmore  Foster 

F.  T.  Fowler,  Jr. 

Frank  Fox 

S.  I.  Frank 

W.  B.  Frankenstein 

Miss  Irma  Freisleben 

Mrs.  Ray  Friss 

Ray  Friss 

W.  Brock  Fuller 

Dr.  Geo.  W.  Funck 

William  Gaertner 

Carl  Gallauer 

August  Gatzen 

Heman  Gifford 

Mrs.  John  Ginocchio 

Egbert  H.  Gold 
Mrs.  M.  P.  Goldsmith 

H.  W.  Gossard 

Miss  Helen  J.  Gould 

Dr.  R.  B.  H.  Gradwohl 

J.  Grassell 

H.  L.  Green 

J.  E.  Greenebaum 

John  Greenebaum 

Mrs.  Walter  J.  Greenebaum 

I.   Leon   Gross 

Mrs.  Robert  A.  Gunn 

Mrs.  Herman  Hachmeister 

Julius  S.  Hall 

Dorathea   Halstead 

Dr.  Albert  E.  Halstead 

A.  J.  Halvorsen 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Halvorsen 

Adolph  Hammel 

Miss  Gertrude  B.  Hardt 


Albert  W.  Harris 

J.  M.  Harris 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Harris 

Sanford  F.   Harris 

Mrs.  Margaret  Harrison 

Henry  G.  Hart 

H.  Walton  Heegstra 

Mrs.  H.  Walton  Heegstra 

Fred  Hengesch 

Mrs.  Fred  Hengesch 

Master  F.  Hengesch 

Oscar  Heineman 
Mrs.  Alma  D.  Hennig 

Louis  Henoch 

Miss  Anna  S.  Henry 

W.  A.  Heppler 

Alfred  Hersley 

John  Hertz 

Miss  Leona  Hertz 

John  Hill 

Edward   Hines 

Dean   Hodgon 

DuVal  E.  Holeman 

Walter  C.  Holman 

Mrs.  Walter  C.  Hobnan 

Miss  Elsie  W.  Holz 

James  Hopkins 

Henry  Homer 

John  S.  Hummer 

Mrs.  John  S.  Hummer 

W.  H.  Hurst 

Harry  Frederick  Hutlquist 

Mrs.  J.  P.  Hynds 

C.  H.  Dgen 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Dgen 

Rosier  continued  on  page  130 


128 


H.  Walton  Heegstra  sends  this  in  re- 
sponse   to    onr    request    for    about    a 
1,500-word    humorous    article    entitled 
"My  First  Ride." 


Philip  W.  Raber 
on  Oh  Boy 


Wm.  H.  Clarke 


Photo  by  Haa3 


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ROSTER  CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION 


Miss  Clara  O.  Jacox 

Wm.  N.  Jarnagin 

Mrs.  M.  C.  Jeflfers 

Walter  Clyde  Jones 

Geo.  L.  Johnson 

Mrs.  Geo.  L.  Johnson 

Capt.  Harry  F.  Johnson 

Miss   Kathryn  Johnson 

Miss  Helen   H.   Kackley 

Emil  Kahn 

Thomas  P.  Kane 

Miss  Edith  L.  Katzmann 

Roy  D.  Keehn 

Miss  Clara  C.  Keller 

Mrs.   R.  C.  Keller 

Miss  Elsie  Kelly 

Lawrence  T.   Kelly 

Herman  Kemmel 

E.  M.  Kerwin 

S.  H.  Kesner 

S.  T.  Kaiddoo 

W.  G.  Kimball 

Miss  Ruth  Kimball 

Mrs.   Ethel   Gilky   Kirclier 

P.  Kiron 

Joseph  Kleinhaus 

G.  H.  Knutson 

Edward   J.   Kock 

Edgar  T.  Konsberg 

Benjamin  Kulp 

H.  H.  Labadie 

Miss  Camille  J.  Lange 

Jas.  B.  Latimer 

C.  E.  Laurents 

G.  C.  Leffingwell 

E.  J.  Lehmann 


Otto  W.  Lehmann 

Arthur  G.  Leonard 

G.  Russell  Leonard 

Martin  Leopold 

James  Levy 

G.  K.  Line 

Arnold  Livermore 

Adolph  Loeffler 

Harold  J.   Loftus 

Dr.  Grace  M.  Long 

Miss  Helen  Loring 

A.  Lowenstein 
Mandel  Lowenstein 

Eames  Mac  Veagh 

A.  F.  Madlener 

Dr.  Eugene  Maginnis 

Ernest  V.  Maltby 

Paul  H.  Manz 

Harold  Marks 

John  P.  Marsh 

Miss  M.  Martin 

Geo.  E.  Mason 

John  D.  Matz 

Carl  Matz 

Mr.   Elias   Mayer 

Mrs.  Elias  Mayer 

James  R.  McDonald 

Arthur  T.  Mcintosh 

Thos.   J.    McKearnan 

E.  P.  McKenna 

Miss  Nellie  S.  McKenna 

Miss  Inez  S.  McKeown 

Mrs.  W.  J.  McKillip 

Hayes  McKinney 

Mrs.   Hayes   McKinney 

F.  R.   Meadowcroft 

Arthur  Meeker 

Miss  Florence  Mersch 

Oscar    Meyer 


Mrs.  Sigmund  W.  Meyerfeld 

Ed.  W.  Miller 

Mrs.  Edith  Miller 

Dr.  James  Herbert  Mitchell 

Harry  C.  Moir 

Miss  Claire  W.  Molitor 

Miss  Ruth  Moody 

Miss  L.   P.  Moran 

W.  J.  Morden 

Mrs.   G.  Morehead 

Edw.  Morris,  Jr. 

R.  H.  Morse 

Harry  A.  Mott 

E.  R.  Moulton 

Miss  Sylvia  Mueller 

Joseph  M.  Mulford 

John  K.  Murphey 

Mrs.  Maude  C.  Murphey 

Mrs.  William  Murray 
Dr.  Geo.  H.  Musselman 

Miss  Annette  Neben 

Miss  Hermine  1.  Neben 

Will  R.  Neff 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Neis 

L.  A.  Neis 

Wm.  P.  Nelson 

Miss   Cora   B.   Newman 

Harry  Newman 

Al.  N.  Nyquist 

Max  Oberndorf 

Harry  Oberstella 
Frank  J.  O'Brien 

W.  J.  O'Brien 

Dr.  A.  J.  Ochsner 

Miss  Bertha  Ochsner 

Mrs.  J.  F.  Octigan 


Hugo   Oldenborg 
Dr.  Daniel  A.  Orth 
Mrs.  Daniel  A.  Orth 

Randolph  Ortman 
Richard  Oslenrieder 

George  Packard 

William  Padget 
Dudley  C.   Palmer 
Robt.  H.  Parkinson 
Miss  Agnes  Partridge 
Miss  Florence  Partridge 
Francis  S.  Peabody 
Stuyvesant  Peabody 

Peter  J.  Peel 

B.  Roger  Pemberton 

Dr.  Nelson  M.  Percy 

Elmer  E.  Perkins 

Lee  Perkins 

Abe   Pfaelzer 

Louis  Pfaelzer 

Chas.  Piez 

W.  J.  Plunkett 

R.  I.  Power 

E.  G.  Pratt 

Walter  B.  Putzel 

P.   W.    Raber 

Symon  P.  Rappal 

Holger  Rasmussen 

Julius  Regenstein 

Mrs.  Julius  Regenstein 

Miss  Pauline  Regitz 

Miss  M.  L.  Reimer 

Wm.  B.   Re  Qua 

Mrs.   Donald   Richberg 

Earl  Ritzwoller 
Rosier  continued  on  page  132 


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CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION  MEMBERS 


Phniuhy  Haas 
Mrs.  ].  M.  Harris  on  Homestead  Choice 


Miss  Edna  Baker, 
Riverside,   Ul. 


Joseph  Wolf 


131 


ROSTER  CHICAGO  EQUESTRIAN  ASSOCIATION 


Carroll  Ridgway 

Miss  L.  Riser 

Miss  Eva  R.  Roberts 

Miss  Ruth  E.  Roberts 

Roderick  Robertson 

W.  T.  Robertson 

T.  M.   Robinson 

Roy  H.  Robinson 

Mrs.  Louise  Mason  Robinson 

S.  W.  Rosenfield 

Miss  Pansy  Rosenheim 

Miss   Catherine   Mae   Rosenwald 

Morris  S.  Rosenwald 

William  Rosenwald 

Watterson  R.   Rothacker 

Edwin   Rothschild 

Felix  Rothschild.  Jr. 

Joseph   Rothschild 

Melville  N.   Rothschild 

Mrs.  C.  E.  Rudolf 

Ethel  M.  Ruel 

Charles  Ruppert 

Mrs.  Charles  Ruppert 

Dudley  Rutter 

Joseph  T.   Ryerson 

Miss  Hazel  Salkin 

Miss  Gertrude  Sammond 

W.  P.  Saunders 

Mrs.  Atrid  P.  Sawyer 

Edw.  J.  Scanlan 

A.  F.  Scannell 

Ernst  L.  Schmidt 

Dr.  Henry  Schmitz 

Perry  Schneider 

A.  E.  Schnitzer 

Miss  Claire  Schonfeld 

Miss  Harriet  M.  Schulz 


R.   H.   Schultz 

F.  M.  Schwandner 

Dr.   C.   S.   Searles 

Miss  Madeline  Seidel 

A. W.  Shaw 

E.  R.  Shaw 

C.  B.  Shourds 

D.  B.   Silberman 

J.   D.   Silberman 

Sig.  Silberman 

Miss  Charlotte  L.  Simmons 

Bob  Sinclair 

R.   D.  Sinclair 

Mrs.  R.  D.  Sinclair 

Wm.  J.  Sinek 

V.  D.  Skipworth 

Fred  W.  Smith 

Miss  Hazel  Scott 

Soloman  A.  Smith 

Albert   T.   Snow 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Snyder 

Miss  Florence  M.  Sopfford 

Miss  Ruth  South 

Archie  Spencer 

Irving  C.  Spier 

Mrs.  M.  M.  Springer 

H.  D.  Squires 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Staal 

Dr.  J.  K.  Staufer 

Benj.  F.  Stein 

Kurt  M.  Stein 

Miss  Ruth  V.  Stein 

Carl  John  Stein 

L.    Montefiore   Stein 

Herbert  L.  Stem 

Lawrence  F.  Stem 

L  Stiefel 


L.  S.  Stiles 
Miss  Helen  C.  Stone 
Miss  Madeline  Stone 

James  G.   Stuart 

Henry  D.  Sturtevant 

William  J.  Sutherland 

Charles  E.  Swanson 

Dr.  August  Swierczek 

Carrol  W.  Swigert 

Miss  Edith  Sykes 

F.  E.  Taggart 

Miss  Jean  Talley 

C.  A.  Terrill 

Lucius  Teter 

R.  E.  Thomas 

A.   C.  Thompson 

John  R.  Thompson 

Charles  J.  Thresher 

Geo.   Enos  Throop 

Miss  W.  Klyde  Trites 

Miss  Estelle  P.  Turnell 

Mrs.  Grace  M.  Underwood 

Fred  W.  Upham 

Mrs.  Jos.  Drew  Vail 

Mrs.  K.  E.  Van  Ness 

Edgar  S.  Van  Sant 

H.  L.  Van  Schaick 

Morris  Vehon 

E.  J.  Von  Esh 

Miss  Anna  M.  Waarich 

Richard  Wassermann 

Miss  Margaret  M.  Watkins 

Philip  Weinberg 


E.  A.  Wenger 

Eugene  J.  Weiner 

Miss  Cora  M.  Westpfahl 

Mrs.  Julia  L.  Whitney 

Thos.  E.  Wilson 

Mrs.  Huldah  Wisner 

Joseph  Wolf 

Leo  Wolf 

Louis  Wolf 

Miss  Louise  C.  Wolf 

General  Leonard  A.  Wood 

Mr.  Francis  Leigh  Wood 

Ross  A.  Woodhull 

Miss  Jane  Woodin 

Guy  Woodin 

Miss  Marie   Carr  Wooley 

Charles  Wouters 

Mrs.  Geo.  C.  Wilce 

Hugo  Wilke 

John  Williamson 

W.  L.  Williams 

Charles  S.  Williamson 

William  Wrigley,  Jr. 

W.  J.  Wyman 

Honorary  Members 

Col.  Chauncey  B.  Baker 

Sheldon  Clark 

John  H.  Harding 

H.  Ingram 

Ransom  E.  Kennicott 

Herbert  J.  Krum 

John  Barton  Payne 

Wm.  Hale  Thompson 

Charles  H.  Wacker 

General  Leonard  A.  Wood 


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CHICAGO   EQUESTRIAN   ASSOCIATION  MEMBERS 


Mrs.  H.  Walton  Heegstra  on  "Highland  King,"  a  promising  young- 
ster who  seems  to  realize  that  most  everyone  else  is,  like  himself, 
from  Missouri. 


My  May  Dare 
Owner  Wm.  Padget 


Some  Equestrian  Members  On  Rustic  Bridge- 
Washington  Park 


133 


Here's    distinct    riding    Equipment 
that  proclaims  the  worthy  Mount 


In  choosing  equestrian  equipment  do  you  give  the 
same  care  to  the  dress  of  your  mount  that  you 
would  to  your  own  personal  appearance? 
You  can,  if  your  riding  equipment  is  made  by  the 
House  of  Campbell. 

For  each  piece  produced  by  the  House  of  Campbell 
is  the  expression  of  a  master-workman's  joy  in  his 
craft.  Every  saddle  is  fashioned  with  artistic  care, 
by  hand,  and  bears  the  individual  mark  of  its 
maker,  just  as  every  great  canvas  is  distinguished 
by  the  name  of  its  master  painter. 
Comfort  and  distinctive  appearance  for  both  horse 
and  rider  are  combined  in  our  famous  Whitman- 
English  Type  Saddles.  Likewise  our  Goodrick- 
Saumur  U.  S.  Army  Officers'  Saddle,  adapted  from 


the  notable  Saumur  saddle  of  France  and  now  ob- 
tainable for  civilian  use,  is  all  that  can  be  desired 
for  style  and  ease  of  riding. 
These  saddles  are  made  exclusively  by  us. 
Our  line,  the  most  complete  in  America,  includes 
also  a  complete  assortment  of  bridles,  surcingles, 
martingales,  stirrups,  riding  bits  and  all  other 
accessories  needed  in  riding,  or  around  the  stable. 
This  line  of  distinctive  equestrian  equipment  is 
always  on  display  at  both  our  branches. 

1329  South  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago, 
89  Chambers  Street,  New  York  City. 
Our  catalog  will  be  sent  at  your  request  if  it  is  in- 
convenient for  you  to  visit  either  of  these  show- 
rooms. 


1329  S,  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago    ::    89  Chambers  St.,  New  York  City 

The  Perkins -Campbell  Company,  Cincinnati 


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To  Horse  Lovers 
of  America 

This  Book  Is  Dedicated 

The  Chicago  Equestrian  Association 
and  friends  who  have  helped,  financially 
and  with  service,  may  rightfully  feel 
proud  of  its  completion.  It  seems  safe 
to  predict  that  it  will  find  a  prominent 
place  in  homes,  clubs,  hotels,  libraries, 
riding  academies,  etc.,  where  wholesome 
sports  and  the  desire  for  clean  compan- 
ionship is  reflected  in  the  love  for  man's 
co-worker  and  friend — the  Horse. 


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